WOMEN IMMIGRANTS.
When the Prime Minister stated some time back that the Dominion could accommodate a. considerable number of immigrants, he was taken severely to task for having threatened to flood the labour market. But what do those newspapers that criticised Mr Massey think of Sir Joseph. Ward's utterances on the subject? The London Times of March 14th, in a report of the annual meeting of .the British Women's Emigration Association, says : ' 'Sir Joseph Ward said New Zea- • land could now take 10,000 of the surplus of one and a quarter million women' in Great Britain, and could repeat the order. There was not one of them who could not get good occupation immediately on landing." Great h!?avens! Twenty thousand women! And all of them can get good occupation immediately on landing! Shades of Bell's match factory! What next?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 4
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139WOMEN IMMIGRANTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 4
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