CHILD MIGRATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 99, 30 April 1935, Page 4

CHILD MIGRATION

VICTORIAN INVESTIGATION. SUCCESS OF THE PLAN. [ Per Pr®»B AfcKDUAtion j AUCKLAND. April 29. The former Premier of Victoria (Sir Stanley Argyle) is a passenger by the Niagara, en route to the Empire Parliamentary Union gathering in London. In discusing immigration, he said that community settlement schemes in Western Australia had been a failure, but child immigration had been successful. When he was Premier, he had visited Western Australia to study child immigration, and was so impressed that he committed the Victorian Government to a somewhat similar scheme. City-bred orphan children after a year in Australia developed healthy complexions and began tu grow healthy and strong. They readily adopted Australian customs, as they were brought out too young to have developed a real hankering after the Mother Country. A scheme was being prepared in Victoria and would be supported by the Federal and State Governments and by the Lady Northcote Trust, which had a fund of £200,000 for the settlement of English orphan children. HOTEL LISTS. New arrivais at the New Rutland Hotel are: —Mr. G. H. Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. A. Gillies, Mr. F. W. Jenkins (Auckland); Mr. L. O. Hooker (Hawera); Mr. G. E. Watson, Mr. E. Robinson, Mr. J. F. Palmer, Mr. C. K. Ross, Mr. H. Connelly, Mr. E. L. Mortlake (Wellington).

New arrivals at Foster’s Hotel include: —Messrs. F. D. Burnett, J. M. (Jarroll, Allan H. Thomas, Mesdames R. L. Button, Eardley L. Button, and P. D. Camerou (Wellington); Miss J. N. Naylor (London); Mrs. F. C. Lewis (Masterton); Mr. and Mrs. B. E. H. Whitcombe, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Davis (Christchurch); Mrs. R. Crompton (Fiji): Mr. Donald Macdonald (Edendale); Mr. A. J. Skilton (Palmerston North).