“NO ENCUMBRANCES.”

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1910, Page 3

“NO ENCUMBRANCES.”

\ S<'ATHINT! DENTM'I VI B'N. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION’ —COPYRIGHT.] 1,1 >ND< >N. March 28. d lie Times’ Sydney correspondent cites insiaiices of mat l ied emigrants being denied employment because they were encumbered with children, and concluded by saving that until New South Wales fanners and snuainrii,end their wavs it is cruelly t• • ‘-■■u l emigrants with young children to Australia or married couples past childbearing. Later. Rev. Mr. Matthews. Rector of < •a'sfield, and formerly of New South Wales, in a letter to tin- Commons congeal u kites its Australian correspondent on bis courageous and outspoken utn-i----ance legaiding the treatment of married immigrants, and attributes the treatment to (he callousness of companies or non-resident sipi.-itters own ing ii large proportion of the pastoral lands. Every expedient is lemitr-d In to curtail expenses and augment the profits. He warns owners that unless they grapple with the problem in tieright way the <Jovernment. will arise and be compelled to ivlimpiisli the large portions of bolding or tax tlo-m out of existence, Received this day at 8.55 a.m. Commenting -itt tin- crilicisiii of (In Times’ Australian cm respoiiileni, .In Daily Mail remarks that the embat'g on children is a danger to the wlo-b community. The exclusion of coloured races from Australia imposes tin- to p ust l ilif - I • putting v.<> ob- lacle ii the v:i- of -]r rj) i|>!“ onoo-o ,t,I .