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STRAY LETTERS ON EMIGRATION. 243
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situation because they cannot milk or understand any of the duties of a country life same , - — I inquired " I ) o not at send all the governesses respectabl . We e Reg have istry more Offices on , and our the books answer than was we can the
supply with situations . " Two of the ladies who kept the registry offices each do said so , " . " I hav At e the a sister same who time wi it shes must to be come admitted out , but that I tell many her class by no themselves means to
as governesses who have no pretension to the title . When they do obtain situations , the salary ranges from forty to eighty pounds a year . But now there is great depressionand many are not keeping a governess at all where
they have given liberal salarie , s before ; and from my own knowledge many are giving up some servants and reducing their establishments considerably . From these particulars , I am afraid you will think that my views are not
favorable to the emigration of the class which , you propose to assist , namely , governess ciating your _' es or endeavors shopwomen to forward . _Itot I the hop int e erests yon will of our give sisterhood me credit in for Eng appre land - .
I think many people there have a very false idea of the colony . Time was , when there was no such person as a beggar in the streets of Melbourne . _Now much the and case more is altered than they , and can our relieve charitable . We institutions have no and societies law here have and as
private benevolence is frequently taxed greatly . I think poor that I had b , etter dition give you we a h list ave of a our ling societies -in hosp . — ital We have a Benevolent , of course Asy , a general lumwhich hosp is ital intended ; in
adas a home , for those y who are past work ; . This asylum needs , no plea for admittance but poverty and infirmity , and it is greatly overstocked ; so much so , that week after week applicants are sentat the expense of the asylumto the
, , Immigrants' Home for temporary shelter . The latter is an invaluable instienlarged tution , ori its ginall border y desi s , gned and takes for immi in all grants destitute on their persons first . arrival It is , in ; it fact has , lik now e a
workhouse . The men are employed at their various trades , or at stonebreaking ; the "women do needlework , or take care of the children , of which there are generally a large number . The most useful society , perhaps , in
Melbourne is the Ladies' Benevolent Society , which , with its committee of visiting ladies does more good , at less expense , than any other society . In connexion with this has latelbeen instituted an " Industrial Home" which
we hope to establish on a larger y scale in a few months . Government , has granted building a fund site in of Decemb land , and er . we On are the going receipt to of hav your e a letter bazaar I communicated in aid of the
with some of the committee , thinking that perhaps , if they , succeeded in getting a substantial building , part might be set aside for servants , and part for governesses . I learned this morning ( from , the lady who mentioned what
I at had present thoug ; ht that of to they her did committee take servants , ) that in the upon idea their could pay not ing be a entertained small sum weekly , but that no distinction was made between them and the poor widows
and women whose husbands had deserted tliem , for whose sake and their children ' s the " Home" was established . Unless they were to reconsider the matter I know not where governesses could be placed , for there are not
sufficient to enable an Institution solely fo _?* their use to answer . Mrs . Perry , the wife of our bishop , to whom I showed your letter , said that she should ladies write to of whom Mrs . B you arker speak , at as Sy having dney , to been know sent what out latel is to y . be It done is most with probable those
that because the I servant should s' not home think , at Sy that dney Sy , dney has one , any part more set than aside Melbourne for governesses , could , afford a " Home " for ladies exclusively . * We also have a " Refuge " for those
* It will be remembered that Mrs . Barker mentioned that a part of the emi servants grant ' home ladies would at Sydney be received is set apart there for until governesses the return , and of the that _Bishop our ) three
himself from , the bush .
Stray Letters On Emigration. 243
STRAY _LETTERS _ON EMIGRATION . 243
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/27/
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