MR T. E. SEDGWSCK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 19 September 1911, Page 7

MR T. E. SEDGWSCK.

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE,

“Nothing could he better than the way in which the New Zealand Labour Department has treated onr first shipment of hoys,” remarked Mr T. E. Sedgwick to a London reporter on his return from the Dominion. “I am quite satisfied with the result so far, but. there is an enormous lot of spado work to be done hero to make people understand more about emigration ; 'to make them see that the colonies do not want to take only what they have no more use fdr here; to make the authorities 6l orphanages and similar institutions with no criminal taint understand that the best chance for their hoys and girls is in the colonies.” A FEW COMPARISONS. Mr Sedgwick says that, since he has returned ho has noticed how much better off are people in certain positions in New Zealand than they are here. In shops, driving expresses, selling papers, they all give the impression out there that they have had good dinners; it is easier to make them smile and to discover a joke in them. There is not that eternal fear of the embankment. There is a higher standard, of living all round. One cannot help noticing that in New Zealand the factory girl lias dainty j clothes, a welLrnade coat, bright eyes and shining hair. In the factories hero, on the other hand, the women are very glad to got second-hand clothes. Even in the winter they have frequently nothing warmer than a blouse, and they have to go about in* the rain without umbrellas. In New Zealand the factory girl may have a bicycle; here she hires one for 3d and exercises round and round the blocks in the manufacturing area. “On they other hand, ’’continued Mr Sedgwick, “one does .not sec the cxtrorjes of 'wealth in New Zealand. One does not see a thousand pounds’ worth of horseflesh in one turn-out with coachman and footman on the box and two men waiting to open the door. There is no neeT to tip servants. Girls getting a pound a week would ho insulted if they were offered half-a-crown just because one had occupied a bed-room in their master’s house.” Mr Sedgwick is firmly of the opinion that the New Zealand Government should encourage the emigration of girls from England, and the apprenticing of them to housewives, If that were done, he. is convinced that it would have most satisfactory results.