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Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 2

A deputation representing the Canterbury Domestic Syndicate, which is under tho supervision of the Canterbury Sheepowners' Union, waited on the Prime Minister at Christ-church on Saturday and asked that the Government should give further assistance towards Winging domestic helps to the Dominion. Mr Massey, in reply, said that the Salvation Army at Home had an excellent emigration department, which had operated very successfully in Bending a good class of emigrants to Canada. He had been assured that the Army could do the same work in respect to New Zealand. They were not sending waifs and strays, nor undesirables. The Minister of Immigration believed ho would bo able to get all the domestic helps he wanted from the Army authorities at Home. The Government found it harder to get from Home the proper stamp of domestic help than any other class of immigrant. On that account extra inducements had been offered, and ho thought he was right in saying that larger numbeis had come because of those inducements. The Army's emigration operations extended all over England, Scotland, and Ireland. Mr Massey added that, with the exception of domestic helps, the Government had been getting as many immigrants as they wanted.