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170 THE COLCXNIES AND THEIR EEQUIREMENTS...
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foers they would , as you say , foe of incalculafole foenefit to the colony . I hope you- will not scruple to write to me on the subject , as I shall
gladly do what is in my power to co-operate with the friends of thisgood From cause Adelaide in Eng we land learn . " on reliable authority " that large _incomes
are earned there foy many , highly accomplished , women . " It is truethat there are all kinds of incongruities in colonial life , but how
preferable such a life to the homeless condition of nine governesses out of ten in this country ?
manager In an of interview the Durban had Bank about , Natal a fortni , gave ght the since greatest , Mr . encourage Brickhill - ,
ment to our plan , and spoke more than hopefully of educated women obtaining _enjoyment in that colony , naming six ladies who it is
Jbelieved will also work with the London Committee . Mr . Colborne , also of Natalwrites in answer to my inquiries" This colony is
_Yexj fast improving , in every way ; the climate is , exceedingly salubrious . I have no doubt but that people of the class named by you
would find it a very beneficial change , as there is every opportunity of such le finding comfortable homes and engagements . "
I think peop the surest answer as to the propriety , not to speak of the necessity , of such a work will be best seen by the following statistical
tables , which have been collected from the latest and safest colonial reports : —
Deficiency of women for New Zealand .. .. 11 , 461 ,, „ Victoria 138 , 579
„ , , West South Australia Australia . . .. . .. . 4 1 , , 207 389
Total . . . . 155 , 636 155636 fewer women than men in the two islands of which we
alone , possess statistical accounts ! What would the disproportion be if we could include NatalCanadaand Columbiain the
reckon-, , , ing *? Of the fearful reverse of this picture as exhibited in England it would be superfluous to speak ; and if the vice and immorality
on either side of the Atlantic is ever to be uprooted , it must be by some further extension of emigration , by the steady departure from
these shores of our superfluous workers , and by an influx into the colonies of a body of women infinitely superior by birth , by
education , and by taste , to the hordes of wild uneducated creatures we have hitherto sent abroad .
I believe that this matter may be very easily worked by means of loansand that the money so to be lent can very easily be raised
by subscri , ption in England and in the colonies from benevolent persons . There are two great advantages in this system—firstly ,
we shall , by lending instead of giving * , be able to assist a class of persons who , however poor they may be , ( and I believe not one
person in a thousand has the very faintest idea how absolutely poor
170 The Colcxnies And Their Eequirements...
170 THE _COLCXNIES AND THEIR EEQUIREMENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/26/
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