THE SITUATION REVIEWED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13742, 25 May 1910, Page 7

THE SITUATION REVIEWED.

< Received May 24th, 11.40 p.m., LONDON, May 24. The Australian correspondent of 'The Times" cites opinions expressed in Queensland and in other Australian quartorE that the German immigrant is Always considered before the English immigrant .us being more amenable to discipline, which is largely duo to his early military trailing. Mc is said also to bo moro sober, reliable, and intelligent. The correspondent emphasises the need of an economic remedy, making it profitable and healthy to work on tho land outside of the Motherland's overcrowded citios, and of an educational remedy giving every lad a sound physical and disciplinary training. "The Times," in a leading article o.i tho subject, declares that tho Empire cannot be populated tvith the waste products only, and it is the emigrant whom the Motherland cannot afford to lose. Tho one and only expedient capable of relieving tho overcrowded cities and meeting tho Empire's needs is to send out their town children ■while they are young.

A batch of seven boys, to be trained on Victorian farms, as part of Mr Gwynne's scheme, arrived by the Ostorlcy last week, and were taken in hand by the Victorian Immigration Committee.