LIGHT WORK FOR LADIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14169, 18 September 1906, Page 7

LIGHT WORK FOR LADIES.

LADY ABERDEEN’S VIEWS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 16. In a letter to the “Times,” Lady Aberdeen agrees with Miss Rose Scott and the International Council of Women in Sydney on the question of the emigration of cultured women to Australia for tho purpose of engaging in bee-keeping and similar light work on the land. Lady Aberdeen, who is international president of the National Council of Women, explains that personally she never participates in immigi’ation work except inr relation to Canada. MISS ROSE SCOTT’S EXPLANATION. SYDNEY, September 17. In reference to Lady Aberdeen’s letter, Miss Rose Scott, who is international secretary of tho National Council of Women in Sydney, explains that the matter came np at a meeting of the Council recently. Sir John Cockburu, Mr B. R. Wise and other Anglo-Aus-tralians were present at a meeting in London, which advocated that cultured women should be sent to Australia to conduct bee farms and undertake similar light work on the land. The Sydney Council protested against the proposal, holding that it would be a very dangerous experiment, ae such women would not know the conditions obtaining in the country, and if they came out they would find that they were attempting an ahnofit impossible task.