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FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION. 25
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In Re-Introducing Tlie Subject Of Female...
_^ engaged in soine out-of-door cheerful occupation or amusement ; reallyand not nominallyone of the family . It is very necessary
that such , candidates shoul , d be musical ; indeed an undue importance is in the colonies attached to musical talents . Such persons may
emigrate to Melbourne , Adelaide , Sydney , Brisbane , and Natal . Those who cannot obtain immediate employment in these cities , may from
there be passed on to the many townships and villages of the interior ; and lest any of my hearers should imagine , when I speak of
townships and villages , that a few wooden huts sparsely scattered over a vast stretch of country are meantI shall remind you that , in the
territory of Victoria alone , there , are fifteen towns sufficiently advanced to possess Banks and to support newspapers of their own .
N _" ew South Wales has ten Branch Banks in her departments alone , and eight different newspapers . Even Queensland , the least
developed , if the most promising of the Australian colonies , has already three Banks and the same number of newspapers .
In New Zealand , there are Banks at Auckland , Wellington , _Xryttelton , Christchurch , Nelson , Dunedin , and Invercargill ;
Auckland and Wellington , each boasting of three papers , Canterbury and Otago of two , Nelson one , Hawkes Bay and Taranaki of two
more each . I can name fifteen colonial * ports doing a sufficient trade with
this country to enable parcels of small sizes ( five feet ) to be forwarded from England at 2 s . 6 d . per package .
Need any more be added to convince you that the colonies are neither the sandy deserts nor the waste howling wilderness , some
morbid imaginations would picture them ? As to the chances of an efficient teacher obtaining employmentthe evidence is so strong as
to the certainty of success , that I had almost , gone so far as to say , there must be some defect in the mind or morals of a woman long
unemployed in the colonies . The editor of the Melbourne Argus ( now in London ) was asked
the other day , whether " there was room in the colony for women ?" " Oh , yes , " was his answer , " they are wanted , and will be till
the disproportion between the sexes [ which he put down at 4 130 t Certainl , 000 ] y was ; some at of an the end best . " And women women in the of colony the governess were orig class inally ?
governesses . " " I will , " continues my friend , " bring him round to you I , received not to your a letter views ; ( from he is which there , alread the following y . " is an extract ) a
short time since . " Madam , —Two months ago I wrote you on the subject of
the emigration of educated women , advising you not to send out * AdelaideFreemantleNelson .
. . Auckland Algoa Bay . . liaunceston Hobart Town . . NataL Otago . dne
Cape Canterbury Town . . Moreton Melbourne Bay . . Wellington Syy . .
Female Middle Class Emigration. 25
FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION . 25
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/25/
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