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ANOTHER MAIL: FROM MISS RYE. 269
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in have which gone the further immi . She ants may would have be picture received d a nice for comfortable a few- days clean after home their gr
landing let , pending look at their their procuring realization emp The loyment cordial . Such reception the * antici is changed pations int ;— o
way now cold for indifference us the purposes , the p to leasant which home they . are into destined miserable . barracks , unfit in every
most she It had should needed good not reason A be part forgotten to from suppose the that ill she Miss had R liment ye that was in to attracted Miss her charge _B- to Otago and which the because Otago many
influential does it seem persons that . the under accession whose to ausp the comp ices female she acts population , how wretchedl so eagerl ye , y y inconsistent clamoured It cannot be
the pretended for a trouble few that months to Miss inquire back Bye should has and made find now an that be un she s so uitable coldl has y selection exercised received . the ! We utmost have taken
discrimination in her choice , . It appears that the exception which the colonial Press took to Miss Rye ' s plans , that she desired Instead to flood of the colonies with
unsuitable femalesis without foundation . , as was alleged , her the least selecting proportion only young , of her women choice of education Miss R and 's proteges gentle would nurture onl , these be fit form for
. yey required R governesses onl . ei But , was ht it are the appears fitted popular , for that objection out of , the whilst thre hundred e hard of - whom working girls broug are servants alread ht by y were Miss progovernesses
has service vided ye broug , for . y . ht The g with The condition her other was which ninety that of guided -two character are Miss person , Rye Contrary s in accustomed her selection to ordinary to of household those opinions she
she held that the Reformatories should not . be looked to as the source of , female immigration to the colonies ; she would have nothing unblemished to do with
Mag Such dalenes at least ; she is the soug statement ht out we those have whose before characters us , and we were have every reason . to believe , it ,
b But the the reception very . precautions with which Miss her R charges ye took have are rendered been greeted the least . The available purer y
their previous lives , the more must their sense of modesty revolt at the the police outrage barracks to which without it is subjected the sli . htest ! N " ext pretence door to , and of privacy not fenced without off from the ,
, g , housed means even and of ill cleanliness -fedwould — it water be a onl matter y to be of procured wonder at that a public the unfortunat _house—^ ill e -
them girls should ? The be tempted purity , of int the o forgettin past would g the make rules them that had more hitherto susceptible guide to d
the It wrongs is a bitter of very the return present to , and Miss to R contaminating ye for selecting influences Otago as . the first test of she herself be received with scant
her cordiality experiment , but that , that she not should only be should doomed to appear to keep bad faith with to her The too
have those who sad have trusted to answer themselves for in enticing protection out these . poor government females , and ,
a wrong , building according properl them such situated a reception for the . It reception is not too of late female now immi to procure grants a and proper all
political attention , questions to it . y The apart ladies , we , trust of Dunedin the government toomi will ht incline show some their interest immediate ; in g
Miss behind Rye ' s to effort continue . Whatever her labours she . may Wh , do should would , not be the useless ladies if of she D left unedin no one y
Dep ask _Ot the , and government watch over to it p , lace and under regulat not their e it disdain efficientl charge to y render the ? In Female other parts Immigrant attention or the
to world the the alleviation highest of and the the . sufferings noblest do of the less fortunate of personal their sex ; and of the kind not extincthat
more surely natural in Dunedin than that generous the reception sympathies of female immi are grants should be left W to the care and sympathy of their own sex ?
Another Mail: From Miss Rye. 269
_ANOTHER MAIL : FROM MISS RYE . 269
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/53/
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