BEE-KEEPING FOR CULTURED WOMEN.

Mataura Ensign, 17 September 1906, Page 3

BEE-KEEPING FOR CULTURED WOMEN.

AN EMIGRATION PIiOPOS.U, DISCOUNTENANCED.

By Electric Telegraph Copyright Per United Press Association. Received September 17; 8.15 a.m. LONDON, September Ifi. In a letter to 'The Times,' Lady Aber deeu agrees with Miss Rose Scott and the f International Council of Women of Sydney on the qnestion of the emigration of i-nltureil women to Australia for the purpose of engaging i" bee-keeping and similar light work on the land. La-Iy Aberdeen, who is International President of the National Council of Women, explains that personally she never participated in emigration work except in relation to Canada. ■ SYDNEY, September 17. wP In reference to Lady Aberdeen's letter, »• Miss Rose Sc >tt, who is International Secretary of the National Council of ; Women at Sydney, explains that the matter came np at a meeting of the Council recently. Sir John Cockburn, Mr B. K. Wise, and other Anglo-Australians were present at the meeting in London which advocated that cultured womtn should be ►cut to' Australia' to comiuct Dee tarm* and similar light work on the land. The Sydney Council protested against the proposal, holding that it would be a very dangerous experiment, as such women would .not know the conditions obtaining in the country, and if they came out would find they were attempting an almost impossible task.