ANGLO-INDIAN IMMIGRANTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 151, 23 December 1925, Page 6

ANGLO-INDIAN IMMIGRANTS

By the steamer Janus, from Calcutta, there arrived in Sydney recently a party o£ seventeen Anglo-Indian immigrants, comprising eleven boys and six girls, who are bound for settlement in New Zealand, states the "Sydney Morning Herald." Under the organisation of the St. Andrew's Colonial Homes the young people havo been educated according to Western standards. They came from Kalimpong in the Himalayas, where a scheme of training is fostered by the Anglo-Indian community. Capable of undertaking farm work ag a result of this training, the boys will take up positions that have been found for them on New Zealand farms. The girls will be employed in domestic duties in the Dominion. The party was met by the Rev. Victor "Whyte, who recently returned to Sydney on twelve months' furlough, after seven years of missionary work in Eastern Bengal with the Australian Baptist Mission. Mr. White stated that under the comprehensive system provided by the British organisation the students were enabled to attain an educational standard along senior Canibridge lines. In his charge the boys visited tho Australian War Memorial Museum. The party were to leave for New Zealand by the Jlahcno for Auckland.