An increasing number of people interested in Imperial migration are
considering how we may send more British boys to Australia. At a dinner given by the South Australian Government at Adelaide a few days since to the last batch of British farm apprentices, the Minister who welcomed them told the newcomers that they were just the type wanted by Australia. " We sent for you," he said, " to come out to help us to develop the country. We desire you to go: on the land and eventually to become producers. You will be treated like sons. Good luck." A significant fact recorded by the Times correspondent is that the Labour agitation urging the abandonment of the scheme has ceased in consequence of the good reports received from the farms where boys who came earlier are at work. What a vision is opened up by the prospect of the migration of tens of thousands of British youths from the murky slums of our cities to the great open spaces of the Dominions !
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