ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT.
(New York "World.")
"Sure," said! Mrs. Mary .Boyle, who for thnHy yearn has been matron of the Emigrants' Free Labour Bureau, attached to the Barge Office, "men com© here looking for wives. Th^y walk fa and ask me if I have a girl wibh blonde ihair and blue eyes, and not too, tall, as calmly as you or I might go into a department store, and ask for a yard of sateen*. And sometimes *hey find what they want." "Thirty years I have been down here and s,een the pretty girls and the older women came in fromi all parts of the world, and many is the time that, they have got married before tihey had been in the ■country a fortnight. And all through me or the agenti, Mr. Grodlen."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11992, 10 July 1903, Page 7
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136ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11992, 10 July 1903, Page 7
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