FARMERS AND WIVES:.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 7

FARMERS AND WIVES:.

m " SEND US GIRLS." A MESSAGE FROM WEST AUSTRALIA. STATEMENT BY MR MOORE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 1, 9 a-m.) LONDON, 31st March. The Hon. N. J. Moore, Premier of Western Australia, speaking at a gathering of intending emigrants, stated that he had received the following message from Western Australia : — "Send us as many girls as possible Qur farmer* want wives." AN INVITATION. PROPOSED ADDRESS AT LEICESTER. (Received April 1, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 31sfc March. Mr. J. Ramsay Mac Donald, Labour M.P. for Leicester, is arranging for Mr. N. J. Moore (Premier of Western Australia) to address 4000 persons at Leicester upon the subject of emigration. "NO ENCUMBRANCES." VICTORIAN AGENT-GENERAL INTERVIEWED. LONDON, 3-Isd March. Sir John Tayerner, Victorian AgentGeneral, interviewed by the Times on the Victorian Government's immigration | proposals^ said they specially provided for married people, and made special provision for farm labourers with families. The Times remarks that its Australian correspondent recently spoke with appreciation of the exertioas of the Victorian Government. That Government was not alluded to in the article on married immigrants any more than the New South Wales Government. The Times emphasised the fact that its correspondent's criticism was directed to the attitude of some private employers, not against action or inaction on the part of the State Government.