TOWN LADS FOR COLONIAL FARMS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Whilst expressing on behalf of my Committee and myself our gratitude to those of your readers who responded to the appeal you kindly inserted in your issue of August 27th, we regret to have to state that the total sum received has only amounted to £101 of the £600 required. The trial party of fifty lads are selected and ready, for whom the Government of New Zealand have found work on farms, for whom they have provided assisted passages, and whose well-being and fair treatment are assured. The season is advancing, and if the whole of the necessary money cannot be raised we shall only be able to send out a proportion of the lads, with the admission that we could not raise £600 to help thus fifty families of the future generation to live happy, hopeful lives overseas instead of their being condemned by circumstances over which they had no control to a squalid existence in our overcrowded Metropolis. This would be so serious a reflection on the philanthropy of Christian England that I venture to crave the indulgence of your columns to ask if it shall be permitted. Emigration is the only final form of relief by which both the Home-country and the Empire overseas are benefited, and in which the money as repaid can be used again and again. As stated in my former letter, contributions may be sent to the Central Emigration Board, Cromwell House, Surrey Street, W.C. (marked " For the Emigration of Town Lads "), or to yours, Hon. Secretary to the Scheme for the Emigration of Town Lads to Colonial Farms.
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