WOMEN IMMIGRANTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 6

WOMEN IMMIGRANTS

LADY CECIL'S- WOBK.

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "Th* Evenins. Post")

AUCKLAND, This Day.

The members of the Victoria League entertained Lady Cecil and her daughter Margaret yesterday. The visitors were enthusiastically welcomed. Lady Cecil said that she had been overwhelmed with the reception accorded her since her arrival in Auckland, particularly that of the Victoria League. As one of the founders of the league, and vicechairman of the Society for Overseas Settlement of British women, her work among women migrants had brought her closely into touch with the New Zealand Branch of the Victoria League, and also the Girls' Friendly Society and the Y.W.C.A. Bor the work of these institutions she had immense admiration. The support from the Dominions, had immeasurably assisted the work of emigration from the Old Country. The authorities were now sending out a conductress with women emigrants. This arrangement had proved!most satisfactory, as the girls benefited by well-reg-ulated life on the voyage and were under a certain amount of discipline.

Sir James Allen was present, and in a few remarks, said' that in considering the qualifications of the applicants among the younger girls, the Home Office was greatly in favour of sending girls whose brothers had emigrated to the Dominion. It was hoped that after the girls had gained experience, and that when the boys commenced working for themselves, the sisters. would become successful housekeepers on their farms.