TRAINING REQUIRED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 18

TRAINING REQUIRED

PREPARATION FOR OVERSEAS

AN IMMIGRATION SUGGESTION,

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 22nd September. Mr. Bernard Tripp (Canterbury) lias lately been making a study of the various migration schemes to the Domin ions, and he has come to the. conclusion that the New Zaland nominated system, although it has done oxcellenl work up to this, is now too.slow and out of date. In order to get settlers from England under this system, it is necessary to write to London and have them selected and nominated before they can leave. This takes the best part of six months before the people arrive in the Domin ion. It is Mr. Tripp's view that it would be far better to have suitable immi grants passed by the Medical Deparl ment in England, and then sent direct to a central training camp in New Zea hind, where they would have instrue tors to train them for work, a method that would prevent them being idle in the town's until they obtained employ ment. If this plan were adopted, any one requiring labour would apply direct to the camp for suitable men, and they would obtain it in a few days instead of having, to wait for six months. "It must he realised," said Mr. Tripp, "that,migrants we most require in New Zaland are agricultural labourers and shepherds. This is a class which is running short in Britain, and the only way to overcome this difficulty is to send out young men to be trained in camp as suggested. . "Then, again, take the domestic servant question. Trained girls are very short in England, but there are hundreds of girls who are willing to, go to the Dominions if some system of training them on arrival were arranged." In order to get over the present difficulty, Mr. Tripp suggests that a depot in Wellington should be established to train the girls in domestic work, and that in due course ' training depots should bo established in Auckland, Christchurch, and.Dunedin as well. Also a great deal might be done to assist the scheme if owners of private houses agreed to take from time to time girls to train them in domestic work. "By having an arrangement like this some hundreds of girls would be encouraged to come out to New Zealand—a method which would help to overcome the domestic servant problem, and make country life less hard for parents of small means and young families." Mr. Tripp has interviewed the Over seas Settlement Committee in Londfn, and they lead him to believe that if the New Zealand Government would come forward, with a scheme such as hti suggests, they would find 50 per cent, of the cost.