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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10067, 13 June 1910, Page 5

NOT WANTED.

j BRITISH LADS FuR FARMS. I SUGGESTED IMMIGRATION SCHEME. OPPOSED BY MASTERTON AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. J At the meeting of the General Uomi mittae of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday last, i letter was received from Mr E.Ttegear, secretary for Labour, in reference, to the immigration of English town lads between the ages of fifteen and nineteen years to New Zealand. , The scheme is to place these lads in agricultural districts with farmers wno will provide, in addition to food a; d clothing, a weekly wage and undertrke to a training in farmwork generally, ; so as to fit them to hecoma settlers. This scheme , was~ brought under . til a notice of the Government by Mr Thomas E. Sedgwick, a rscsnt visitor from England, and the Government are communicating with the various Agricultural bodies in New Zealand with a view to obtaining their views on the matter before taking any deflnita steps. Mr Strang said he was not in favour of the scheme. ''We have our own lads to put on faruii if we wish to do so," he said, "and we should study them baf jre lads from another country. If we want lads for farm work we can get plenty on the same terms as those proposed by Mr Sedgwick, and, further, plenty of boys and youths are available who have some knowledge of farm work and conditions, and who would net be raw material like the j English town lads." He moved J that no action be taken in the matter, the resolution being seconded by Mr T. P. Lett. Mr Harper said he qiite agreed , with Mr Strang's view, which was a sensible ona, and to the point. Mr G. C. Summsrell, chairman, said he was of opinion that the scheme was an unsuitable one Ho himself wa3 continually receiving , applications from parents who desired their noy3 to be put on farms, "and," continued the speaker, "good ness only knows wnat we would do if three, or four hundred b'»ys were brought from England with the object ot getting them situations on tarms in New Zealand." The motion was put and carried. i