IMMIGRANTS FOR AUSTRALIA.
CASUAL CITY WORKERS. Dy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, June 13. Mr. Herbert Easton gave a luncheon to tho press at the Royal Hotel. In an address on immigration he thanked Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, for sending hundreds if young men and women to Australia uirlor the Unemployed Workmen's Act, and advocated extending the emigration clauses to the whole of tho United Kiniphm. His mission, he said, was not to deplete Great Britain of its rural population, but to relieve it of young casual city workers. It would be a two-fold gain if Australia could turn them to good effect. Mr. Earp, of New South Wales, 'Admiral Sir E.. Fremantlp. and Capbiin Collins (secretary to Sir George Reid) also spoke. Lord Kitchener wrote expressing ropcM for his absence, and eulogising the w.rk of the British Immicrrotion League.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1154, 15 June 1911, Page 5
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