BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 19511, 10 May 1922, Page 5

BRITISH AFFAIRS

OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT. TRAINING OF EMIGRANTS CLAIMS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS. (By Telegraph—Pre« Awn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 8. (Received May 9, 8.15 p.m.) The steamer Largs Bay to-morrow is taking 600 emigrants, including 100 lads for South Australia and 37 Dreadnought lads f or New South Wales. All are ex-service men except the lads. Sir Arthur Lawtey, speaking at the Migration Charity Organisation Society, commended the Empire Settlement Bill. The Hon. J. D. Connolly endorsed these views and described Colonel Amery as the best. British authority on migration. Dame Muriel Talbot, president of the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women, explained that a branch of the Overseas Settlement. Committee was working in co-operation with the Ministry of Labour, and since May last it had trained 5000 inexperienced unemployed women and girls for domestic service. She advocated similar training in England for women emigrants to Australasia. She regretted that the Dominions had not endeavoured to emigrate women and girls equally with m en and boys. She complained that the Commonwealth Emigration Department was offering absurdly inadequate wages for bush nurses, and she advised them not to accept such terms.