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Evening Star, Issue 15138, 20 March 1913, Page 10

The Hon. H. D. Bell, commenting on the announcement that Miss Bremner, the officer in charge of the women's branch of the Labor Department, was forbidden to go on board the incoming liners in future, said It was a fact that, as Minister of Immigration, he had directed that Miss Bremner should not again attend the ships on their arrival to interview the immigrants. “ Miss Bremner is an officer of the Department of Labor,” said Mr Bell, “ and her position has not been affected, nor has her salary been affected. Her statements before the Commission were mostly matters of opinion, and not facts within her own knowledge, and as it appeared frpm her own statements that she had neither been able to obtain opinions from girls arriving as to their employment, nor to keep in touch with them afterwards, there was no object to be gained in her meeting them. I am satisfied that the female immigrants selected by the High Commissioner, and who were under the care of the New Zealand Government during their passage, have been well conducted and are entirely suitable immigrant* •*