BOY AND GIRL MIGRANTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19486, 16 November 1926, Page 16

BOY AND GIRL MIGRANTS.

THE SHEEPOWNERS' FUND. VERY SATISFACTORY REPORTS. .[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, Oct. 6. Seventeen South Shields boys have already taken advantage of the opportunities offered by the Sheepowners' Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund and settled in New Zealand, while three others are due to sail in November. In addition six other boys—three from Stanhope Road School, one from Dea. Road, one from Laygate Lane and another from the High School—have been recommended for acceptance by the South Shields Advisory Committee for juvenile employment. Four South Shields girls have gone out under the scheme, and seven others have been recommended. The Shields Daily Gazette devotes a column to a description of the working of this migration scheme. Half the space is devoted to some personal notes supplied by Mr. Frank W. Ivey, who has recently visited the boys and girls in the Dominion. Reporting on his visitations generally, Ir. Ivey writes: " All the boys looked well, and nearly without exception had had splendid health since their arrival in Mew Zealand. The food given to employees on farms or big sheep Btations is very good, and in consequence of this and the open-air life, the boys have made great development in physique. They were keen for their brothers and sisters to follow them, and when they do so an effort is made to place them in employment in the district. Parents wishing to come out to New Zealand are strongly adviwd to wait until their lads have finished the three years indentured period when they yrjll be more established and better able to make the arrangements necessary." After quoting from Mr. Ivey's reports on individual boys and girls the Gazette remarks: "All the reports are distinctly satisfactory, and there is every indication in them that the young settlers have not regretted tlje step they have taken. Supporting these report? are the cheery letters which are constantly being received from both the boys and girls containing interesting descriptions of their life and work in New Zealand. A letter sent by Ruby Ancrum, who is in the Dominion, states: 'I am feeling "posh." What a time we are having. Could not possibly.' have a better place to live in.' In view of the increasing number of boys and girls from South Shields who are desirious of emigrating under the scheme, a movement is on foot to have a special party from "the borough."