A NOVEL COMPETITION.
The Loudon "Daily Express" is holding a novel competition among its readers, who are invited to set io-tli the reasons why ihey would like to settle in Australia. The prizes are. to be ton free passages for young men and five for young women, with guarantees of work on landing. "Every post ha# brought a shoal of letters asking for information about Australia," says the "Daily Express," "and telling stories of discontent with the conditions and the lack of I opportunity in this country. Many of the candidates for free passages say that they want to be able to save enough money to begin in fruit farming on their own account." The competitors are to be strong healthy, a:nd unmarried, and the women must be qualified for domestic work. Australia would be glad to be made the subject of many such competitions. But what has Mow Zealand done that it should be passed ocer? Does tlr.s Dominion npt offer equal attractions to Australia?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 May 1913, Page 4
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166A NOVEL COMPETITION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 May 1913, Page 4
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