WOMEN MIGRANTS

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18548, 25 November 1925, Page 11

WOMEN MIGRANTS

MORE SEARCHING HEALTH) TESTS ? | I VICTORIA LEAGUE DISCISSION. (SPECIAL TO "THE IRK??.' > DUNEDIN, November M. Immigration was. dueusscd at length at the Victoria League conference. Mrs Tripp,'speaking lor Canterbury, said that of twenty-four women immigrants with whom the League had been connected, all but one had been sue- j cessful in their positions. Ladv Luke referred to the great value'of the work, stating i hat tie High Commissioner's hands should be strengthened a.s regards the health or women from Home. .-»on-.e could not stand the strain of the voyage, though generally those who had come out here were verv good. Mr P. R. Sargood sai-i the Government had. as it were, laid'down the rule that, onlv 10,000 or 12,000 immigrants should be brought out in any onti year. He was one of those who thought that more could be absorbed. He supported what had been said by Lady "Luke in regard to the health standard, ant! said it was certainly unsatisfactory in many case?. Ho thought thev should associate themselves with the Dominion Settlement Society (lately formed to assist immigration *!. which comprised Chambers of Commerce and "the whole mercantile communvtv of Now Zealand.

Other Bemits. The following remits were also adopted: — 'inat the league is ready to support propositions regarding the temporary ftousing or lodging of assisted immigrants, which may be advanced by other iMnpirc agencies or by the Minister for Immigration. .^ That it would help to make the English public schoolboys coming out to go on farms less lonely, and their parents less anxious about them, if the Victoria league members or their personal friends would look up the boys, and give them a touch of home life. That the Conference most earnestly exhorts every member of the League, and the public the Dominion to buy goods of British manufacture} as far as possible, and thereby help the Mother Country to alleyiato the suffering caused by unemployment, and that this League strongly supports all measures calculated to promote complete reciprocity of trade within "the Empire, so' as to make as far ris possible the Empire self-supporting. That the League cordially supports the proposal to have an Empire Shopping Week, including Empire- Day, during which all members are enjoined to urge friends and the public to buy only goods produced in some part of.the Empire. That the Postmaster-Cieneral be requested to apply to have the postage on British magazines and books coming to New Zealand reduced, and that books distributed by existing organisations among backblock settlers in the Dominion be carried at newspaper rates of postage. A remit in favour of the creation or a Federal executive committee of the Victoria League, consisting of the presidents of the various branches, and one other member from each branch, was referred to the branches for further consideration.