HEBRIDES ISLANDERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19135, 1 April 1924, Page 7

HEBRIDES ISLANDERS

MIGRATION TO CANADA. A SORROWFUL LEAVE-TAKING. Pma Association —By Telegraph—Copyrl«Jl LONDON, March 50. Amid the tears and lamentations of their relations SQO men. women and children emigrated from the lonely and barren Isle of Mist of the outer Hebrides for Alberta, in Canada, where houses await them among their fellow countrymen. The failure of the fishing, the corn and potato crops, and the peat gathering at Mist owing to storms and continuous rains, have reduced the inhabitants to tbc utmost poverty. The Canadian Pacific Company sent the 10,000-ton liner Mar loch to the uncharted waters of Loch Boi&dale to embark the emigrants.—Sydney Sun Cable. Previous reports have been received describing the privations experienced by the inhabitants of the Hebrides Islands. S and the straits to which they had* been * reduced. A recent message from New York stated that the Sulgrave institution had .received a cable.gram from the Earl of Balfour asking what aid could be extended to the inhabitants of the Hebrides. Ihe appeal was immediately transmitted to President Coolidge and tho Rockefeller Foundation. A cablegram was also despatched to the Edinburgh Provost asking him to specify exactly what form of aid ran best be extended and promising all possible help at the earliest passible moment. BIG CROWDS MUST ATTEND PENROSE’S BIG FIRE SALE “STANLEY’S” SALVAGE ’ From PALMERSTON NORTH. Fire Sale Prices Throughout the Establishment Door* Open 9,x5 THIS MORNING, W. PENROSE & CO. CEORGE STREET —A dvt