WELCOME IMMIGRANTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 7 January 1911, Page 2

WELCOME IMMIGRANTS

THE BOY LABOR SCHEME. -—. '; .£'&►• By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Friday. As fully two hundred and fifty applications were received from farmers for the services of fifty boys who are being brought out to New Zealand on the Athenic by Mr. Sedgwick, the Labor Department, to which the work was entrusted, has been able to place the lads in situations where they are likely to secure the greatest possible benefit and instruction. Immediately on arrival in the Dominion the party will scatter over a wide area. Eleven of the boys are to proceed to situations in various parts of Auckland province, some going as far as Helensville in the North, others to Thames and Rotorua districts, and several to the Waikato. Ten will be located in Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa, seven in Manawatu and Wanganui districts, eight in North Canterbury, four in South Canterbury, five in Otago, and three in Southland. The Department, in addition to meeting the lads on arrival, will, through its agents, see everyone of them safely to his destination. Mr. Sedgwick is accompanying the party, which is due to reach Wellington before the end of the month, but will hand them over to the Department here. In addition to a very large demand for these "pioneer" boy immigrants, farmers are still writing to the Department and asking for the services of lads brought out under similar conditions. The Department, however, prefers to await the result of the present experiment before taking action in the direction of bringing out any further parties.