IMMIGRATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 67, 17 September 1906, Page 5

IMMIGRATION.

WOMEN FOR AUSTRALIA. BEEKEEPING AND OTHER LIGHT WORK. (press association.) (Received September 17, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, 16th September. In a lettor to Tho Timos, Lady Aberdeen agrees with Miss Rose Scott and tho International Council of Women in Sydney on tho question of tho emigration of cultured women to Australia for the purposes of engaging in beekeeping and similar light work on tho land. Lady Abcrdeon, who is the International President of tho National Council of Women, explains that personally she novor participated in immigration work except in relation to Canada. AN EXPLANATION. (Received September 17, 9.12 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In reference to Lady Aberdeen's letter, Miss Rose Scott, who is tho International Secretary of tho National Council of Women in Sydney, explains that the mattov come up at a meeting of the council recently. Sir John Cockburn, tho Hon. B. R. Wise, end other Auglowero present at a meeting in London which advocatod that cultured women should be sent to Australia to conduct beo farms and similar light work on the land. 'Tho Sydney Council protested against the proposal, holding that it would bo a very dangorous experiment, as such women would not know tho conditions obtaining in tho country, and if thoy came they would find they were attempting an almost impossible task.