DESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXV, Issue 2125, 26 January 1909, Page 6

DESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

He strolled into the Agent-General's office in London the other day and asked to see the man in charge of emigration (says the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph's' London correspondent). He was shown in—just an ordinary laboring man of 50 or so. Ho said he wanted to emigrate to New South Wales with a part of his family. How many had he? Well, he had a few; perhaps they would write down their names as ho called them out. He reeled them off: Alma, Violet, Annie, Helena, Lily, Jessie, Evelyn, May, V'ere, Charlie, Dolly, Gladys, Arthur, Norman. They ranged from'the cradle into the middle twenties. "Part of your family, you said?" queried the embarrassed emigration officer. "Yes," replied the father of 20. "I have half-a-dozen sons elder than these over in Canada. They don't think much of Canada, and if you could settle the rest 'of us down in your country, and we like it, the boys would probably come out, too." There were one or two little difficulties in the way—the old man was slightly over the age and some of the children below the age particularly desired by the department, —but the'office wiselv threw out its arms and grabbed the lot. They couldn't miss that sort.