YOUNG IMMIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 72, 25 March 1922, Page 7

YOUNG IMMIGRANTS.

BRITISH WAR ORPHANS. SALVATION ABMY PROTEGES. "Our idea is to catch them youngThere is no doubt that it" you get the right, sort of youngster they make the best colonists, because they gradually get accustomed to our ways and methods, and hy t lie time they reach manhood and womanhood they are practically Xew JSealanders." This Acas the oipinion expressed this morning to a "Star" reporter by Major A. Greene, of the Salvation Army, who is attached to the GoAVrnnient's immigration department. The major was explaining that next month the Army will receive twenty-two children ranging from five years old to fourteen years, who Iliac been selected by the Army authorities at Home as suitable for this Dominion. All the children are orphans of soldierkilled in the war. A nurse is coming out in charge of tho children, who are travelling on tiii? Wain-.ana. The boys are to be trained as farmers at the Army farm at Putaruru. and the girls will be divided among the various Army institutions tor girls u<r training in home duties. On tiie same steamer there are also sixiecon domestics coming out to the care of the Army, and necillcs-s to say a!l thc»e have been provided with work many mouths ago. As a matter of fact the Army only bring- domestics out to assured positions. While lie is of opinion thai the children make the best, immigrants in the long run. Major Greene points out that the Dominion is in immediate need of settlers, so they have to he brought out "ready-made."' When things get more norm-il more people will he brought out, but at present- the financial stringency compels the Army like everyone elec lo contract its ojicrations.