IMMIGRATION.
WOMEN FOR AUSTRALIA. Received September 17, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, September 16. In a letter to The Times, Lady Aberdeen agrees with Miss Rose Soott and the International Couuoil of Women in Sydney on the question of the emigration of cultured women to Australia for the purposes of engaging in book-keeping and similar light work on the land. Lady Aberdeen, who is the International President of the National Council of Women, explains that personally she never participated in immigration work except in relation to Canada. AN EXPLANATION. Reoeived September 17, 9.12 a.m. SYDNEY, September 17. In reference to Lady Aberdeen's letter, Miss Rose Soott, who is the International Secretary of the National Council of Women in Sydney, explains that the matter came up at a meeting of the Council recently. Sir John Cock burn, the Hon. B. R. Wise, and other AngloAustrahans were preteut at a meeting in London which advocated that cultured women should be sent to Australia to conduot bee farms and similar light work on the land. The Sydney Council protested against the proposal, holding that it would be a very dangerous experiment, as such women would not know the conditions obtaining in the country, and if they came they would find they were attempting an impossible task.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8239, 18 September 1906, Page 5
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