MIGRANTS ON RUAPEHU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 11

MIGRANTS ON RUAPEHU.

LARGE PARTY EMBARKS. DOMESTICS SEEK HUSBANDS. (Received 6.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON, Aug. 26. Tho High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir James Parr, and Lady Parr watched the embarkation on the Ruapehu at Southampton to-day of 232' assisted migrants. These included 30 domestics and 20 public schoolboys. Sir James spent the morning in chatting to the migrants. He told the schoolboys they were going to a land of abundant promise. He found that every adult member of tho party already had relatives in New Zealand who had secured employment aril housing for them beforehand. The High Commissioner did not reveal "his identity during his chats with the migrants. Many of- the domestics confided to him that they were going out to New Zealand with the principal idea of finding husbands. They said they had heard there was a surplus of 25,000 men in the Dominion and they hoped to marry some of them. * This was Sir James' first visit to Southampton since his appointment. He says the domestics who sailed on the Ruapehu were of a healthy and useful type. SURPLUS POPULATION. QUESTION FOR CONFERENCE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.5 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 27. In a reference to the forthcoming Imperial Conference the Daily Express says all other subjects will be dwarfed by the paramount importance of arriving at a common policy by means of which population may be transferred from this island, where there are too many people, to the Dominions, where there are too few.