FEMALE EMIGRATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 24

FEMALE EMIGRATION.

SUGGESTED FRUIT CROWING COLONIES. 1 < ' j j ■ , , .

LONDON, June 19. At the instance ot Lady Aberdeen, Mrs James Bryre, and other educated women, . a conference has been held in London for the purpose of demonstrating the openings 1 which the colonies presented for educated and trained women who were fitted to j undertake lighter kinds of agricultural work, such as fruit preserving and bottling, ] poultry and bee keeping, dairying, or as ? experts in domestic work. \ Sir John Cockburn, who presided, stated < that Canada and Au&iralia had 280,000 j more men than women, and tliat there was \ plenty of scope in Australia for women I who were trained in any definite employ- 1 * ment except clerical work. j c Mr B. R. Wise said there was an enor- \ mous demand for women who were willing c to engage in domestic or agricultural pur- j t suits. ! c Mr Napier stated that 54,000 women { were needed in New Zealand, where ] special facilities were given to associated i groups of ladies qualified to engage in c fruit-growing. j Sir Horace Tozer declared that the fruitgrowing industry afforded profitable * openings in Queensland. 1 t ■ I