CADET EMIGRATION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1910, Page 2

CADET EMIGRATION.

In order to promote the iaimigration.to New Zealand of British lads willing to learn farming in its various branches in that country (writes a London correspondent) Dr W\ As Chappie, of Wellington, now resident in. -England, has made the following suggestions to the authorities:—(l) That the New Zealand Labour Department be empowered to receive applications from farmers who are willing to take British lads as cadets, for a term of two years^: providing them with food, clothing and a nominal progressive wage of, say, 2s 6d to 10s per week after the first six months' cadetship. (2) The farmer to contribute one-third, and a British emigration Qr oth er society, the other onethird. (3) The cadet to be a ward of the Labour Department, and subject !° ilts ri^lctlon' direction and control. (4) The Labour Department to nave the power to remove a cadet from one farmer to another or to return him to his native country for sufficient reason. (5) Cadets to be irom 14 to 19 years of age. (6) The acceptance of cadets in Britain to be subject to an examination as to health and freedom from criminal tamt or defect by an officer of the Migh Commissioner's office for New Zealand, and those accepted to be under the protection of a teacher from one of our boys' institutions or other guardian and to be daily instructed on the voyage out in some branch of agirculture. (7) The engagements to be made with each individual farmer by the Labour Department and the department to be responsible for the humane and proper treatment of the boys, and to see that the terms of engagement on both sides are fulfilled; Dr Chappie is inviting letters from boys or their guardians who would be willing to emigrate on these condi-

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