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EMIGRANT-SHIP MATRONS. 33
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This Is Not To Be A Paper On Emigration....
_gross pieces o white val boot tape laces , nine . Half yards gross . Six stay pieces laces black . Se t ven ape , pairs nine yards scissors . , H one alf
pair 6 _^ _V _^„ six pairs smaller * Half gross thimbles , women ' s _. Bag A . being * ready for useeither during" confinements or general
, sickness ; and Bag * B . containing- work to be completed by the young women during * the voyageand to be placed in the hands of the
corresponding members of , the committee in the colonies , and by them to be sold at reduced rates to the emigrants , or given as
rewards for good behaviour , according to the reports of the matrons and the judgment of the ladies .
One of the matrons writing from Melbourne to the London committee remarks , that after anchoring in Geelong Bay , ( 1857 , )
whereshe remained till all the young * women were hired at wages of from twenty to forty pounds a year , she proceeded to Melbourne to seek
shipping , where she was greatly disappointed to find no place for a returning matron to remain in until she can find a situation to return
to England . _" I paid , " she says , " one pound to come here , and I am paying ten . shillings per week for board and lodgingthus the
, _jfew pounds which a ?* e given you are expended before you can make another _stai't . _" Yet this same woman did returnand , liking the
, "work , sailed for Sydney in the " John Bunyan" in July of the same year !
Another matron writing from Hobart Town , begs to be permitted to say , that she considers respectable matrons are treated very
unwisely , as well as ungenerously , in being placed nearly on the same footing * as the emigrants , and then at the expiration of their
toilsome _voyage to be presented with but & ve pounds when their whole strengthboth of mind and bodymustif they do their duty ,
, , , be given to their work . "I do not say this for my own sake , because with , me the task is past , but for the sake of those who come after me . "
In the eighth paper of the British Ladies' Society there are three letters from the coloniesfrom the corresponding members of
PortlandAdelaideand Perth , . You will seefrom the extracts we shall , make , the , description of matrons the colonies , think can be
_prociired for five pounds per annum . The first letter says— " We should suggest that the matron should
be educated an elderl person y sing . The le woman 6 might , of or mind a widow ' works without wonders a famil in subj y , ugatin and an g
unruly members !" The immigration officer from West Australia writes , — " That it
woidd be very desirable if a higher class of persons possessing education and more fitting attainmentscould be obtained ; who would
consequently command more respect , for , and have greater influence over , those committed to their care . "
The message from Adelaide is to our mind still worse , when we remember superfluous the travelling little money . It these — women 6 i That have in consequence at their disposal of many for
says , matrons not taking * _tlxe trouble to call on any of our ladies ,
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Emigrant-Ship Matrons. 33
EMIGRANT-SHIP MATRONS . 33
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/33/
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