IMMIGRATION CIRCULARS
SURREPTITtOUS TOUTING DENIED. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (TIMES AND H\DNK¥ SUN SKIIVICES.) LONDON, 23rd March. Regarding the complaints of mis* tresses against the immigration circulars addressed to domestics by the New, South Wales and Victorian departments, it is officially explained that the Vie* torinn order was to contract for tho despatch of 15,000 emigrants in 1914. Owing to the severe winter in Canada possibly immigrants are chary of going overseas. The Canadian figures havo fallen 70 pec cent, compared with the first two months of 1913, and Australian 60 per cent. Circular letters were addressed to tenant farmers and farm -hands in the provinces, and a special letter to , cooUb and household servants in the Bouth-western suburbs. Thousands wera issued. Tho New Zealand Department says : —"We never approach anybody al> ready employed, and never do any surreptitious touting. ( We ttfe content with legitimate advertising."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 7
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147IMMIGRATION CIRCULARS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 7
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