TELEGRAMS. BOY IMMIGRANTS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 9 April 1910, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

BOY IMMIGRANTS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

;BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM. — COPYRIGHT.]

"NOT THE 'RAG-TAG' OF LONDON"

[PKBEB ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, April 8. At this afternoon's "meeting of the Auckland A. and P. Association, Mr Sedgwick, who is making a tour of the Dominion in advocacy of a scheme for the emigration of the youth of tho Old Country to these < shores, addressed members on the subject of his mission. He said that England was now offering suitable boy labor for the colonies. Young, strong, and versatile men who were willing to come to the oversea dominions if the farmers of New Zealand were willing to co-operate with tho Homo authorities and agree to take parties. It would not bo long before they would be able to send out the exact stamp required for local conditions. If tho scheme were heartily taken jp it would bo possible to relieve the overburdened labor market at Home and to turn it to good purpose in New Zealand and elsewhere.

Dr Stopford, in supporting what Mr Sodgwick had said, remarked that it was not proposed to send out to the colonies the "submerged tenth," but young men capable of making good colonists. He had seen the youth of England living lives that were debasing to their manhood. The type of boys Mr Sedgwick wished to send out here were not the "rag tag" of London, but boys who would make their way ahead if once given a chance. He hoped that the farmers of New Zealand would see their way clear to assist in the movement. The president (Mr I. Gray) said that what tho country wanted was population, and he thought New Zealand could absorb, not only hundreds, but thousands of suitable young men in agricultural labor.

After further discussion a committee was appointed to go into the matter.