YOUTHFUL EMIGRANTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9186, Issue 9186, 9 April 1910, Page 2

YOUTHFUL EMIGRANTS.

BOY LABOUR FOR THE COLONIES. (Per Press 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 bringing the youth of the Old Country to these shores, addressed members on the subject. He said that England was now offering suitable boy labour for the Colonies ; ypimg, strong, and versatile men who were willing to come to the overseas Dominion. If the farmers of New Zealand were willing to co-oper-ate with the Home authorities and agree to take parties of these young men it would not be long before they would be able to send out the exact stamp of man required for local conditions. If the scheme was heartily taken up it would be possible to relieve the overburdened market at Home and turn it to good purpose in New Zealand and elsewhere. Dr Stopi'ord, in supporting what Mr Sedgwick had said, remarked that it was not proposed to send out to the Colonics the "submerged tenth," but young men capable of making good colonists. He had seen the young of England living lives that were debasing to their manhood. The type of boy Mr Sedgwick wished to send out here were not the ragtag of London, but bovs 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 J. Gray, said that what the country wanted was population, and he thought New Zealand could absorb not/ only hundreds, but thousands, of suitable young men in agricultural labour. Alter further discussion a committee was appointed to go into the matter.