AUSTRALIAN SCOTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19966, 7 June 1928, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN SCOTS.

DEPARTURE FROM GLASGOW. ENCOURAGEMENT OF MIGRATION. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON, June 5. The Australian Scots had a cruise on the Clyde to-day. Half of them go to Perth and half to Dundee this afternoon. The chairman's farewell message to Glasgow was; "We would like you to como to Australia and work and prosper, and then return on a holiday and tell your kinsfolk of your success, and induce emulation for the Empire."

Previously the officials of the Clyde Trust had conferred with the delegates and came to a tentative agreement for direct consignments, particularly of fruit and dairy produce. Several of the delegates intimated that they had agreed to employ 50 young Scotsmen who will sail at the end of the year, without Government assistance. Numerous applications have been received from factory girls who wish to emigrate, which tho delegates could only promise to forward. Only 1 'per cent, of tho prospective emigrants are experienced farmworkers, as Canada has attracted the Scots folk. The visitors complain that the official Government propaganda is entirely unsatisfactory for this class of migrant, who does not know anything whatever of the conditions obtaining in Australia.