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THE COLONIES AND THEIR REQUIREMENTS. 167
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The I Believe Establishment That All Of ...
Now the whole of this money is devoted to the introduction into the colonies of artisans and women of the artisan class , the order defined
from the colonial governments being as peremptory and as as that of any Melbourne merchant writing to the correspondingboots
house in London about Manchester cottons or Bermondsey . it must Althoug be h confessed there is much that to on condemn the whole in the there _selectiojn is much - of emi to grants admire , -
_, , about the manner in which these vast bodies of men and womenhave persons been , too , gathered of a class from not always our villages the most and tractable hamlets in , the and world safel — y
conducted and settled on the other side of the globe . Not only during the past year , but emi during the shi past lo fourteen stbut years ,
has there beenno Government gration ps , during the whole of that , period not one life has been sacrificed ; and since the passing of the Passengers' Act , the death-rate has been
diminished to an almost insignificant figure . Another marked improvement has been effected in the condition
j of _> emigrants of providing by a societ matrons y formed for all about ships ten carry years ing large ago , bodies for the of
women urpose . This very useful society has accomplished an immense _^ amount of good by simply placing worthy women over the young
materials girls during to prevent the voyage idleness , and on b the y supp voyage lying ; and them we with are happy working
toadd that the services of some of these matrons have been recognised and partly paid by , the Sydney Government . who When to produc this is
good added character the fact , that may , any by pay laboring ing 305 man . to or the woman Commissioners can at "West e a - minsterreceive a free passage to any colony he may
nominatethat on , his arrival he will be received by the Government agents / in and the at his Gov own ernm option ent barracks proceed — up I think country little , or mor lodge e need for a be mere said trifle ort
clear the subject I have of shown artisan that emi while gration these ; and arrangements if I have made are carried my point out
is on exclusivel a , very liberal confined scale - and to the in a " fairl working y efficient classes manner . " I , dwell the assistance at some
the length subject on this have y fact referred , as so me many to the persons Government to whom agents I have , or spoken reminded on
ine of those very liberal grants which I have just shown are appropriated There funds are two . other methods bmeans of which emigration is . y
conducted—I refer to the " remittance" and the _" loan" systems _* colony The former ; the p latter lan is method extensivel is , y I used believe by , settlers confined in exclusivel nearly every y
to-Canterbury The remittance , New Zealand system . has been worked most efficiently by
the-• forwarded North American the almost settlers incredible , who , durin sum g of the £ 11 past 674 thirteen 596 to this years country , hav &
to secure free passages for their relatives , and , connexions to the
The Colonies And Their Requirements. 167
THE COLONIES AND THEIR _REQUIREMENTS . 167
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/23/
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