"SURPLUS WOMEN"

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 197, 15 May 1920, Page 4

"SURPLUS WOMEN"

EMIGRATION ENCOURAGED BY . ■ ' . BRITISH GOVERNMENT. During, a debate in the House of Com-". mons recently on a vote for the Colonial Office, Air. Aiiiery, the Under-Secretary,. said the vote included ,£2500, half of a sum of .£SOOO proposed to bo given to, the Society for the Overseas Settlement ;of _ British Women. Partly as a result, of' the war there was a surplus of 1,300,000 > women in Great Britain, and the work.of: assisting women to settle in British colo-; nies was therefore very important. What • was being done now in regnrd to overseas settlement was only the beginning, of one of,the most important movements'' in the Empire, for i't \was. inevitable that within' the next few years a very large . number of men and women alike would ' bo seized with the old passion for roam-, ing which had made the Empire. - Mr. Tom Myers, the 'recently-elected'-' Labour member for Spen Valley, observed tlmt the reports of the Army Mcdical Boards showed that only 36 ysr cent, of the men examined for military 'service -were normally fit, and 'lie therefore urged that it was bad policy to send the best of our women out of the country.- ' '