Country Life
Wwarcx WORKERS ARE WANTED.
It is lamented everywhere and accepted as a fact that emigration from Britain to other and emptier parts of the Empire is as good as dead. There is no sufficient, essential reason why this should be so. Let me quote in support a few words from an organizer of the Fairbridge Farm School in Western Australia : " Employment : applications for boys and girls are far more numerous than they hove been for years past. It is most upsetting for me to have to refuse offers of excellent employment. The demand at present is averaging 1,000 a year."
The Fairbridge school is at the north of a section of Australia that has always seemed to me Paradisal. It has harbours, rivers, a good rainfall, magnificent trees, fertile land and a climate that allows no part of the year to be barren. Its population is the most English in the Empire ; but outside those delectable centres Perth, Albany and one or two other townships, the population is absurdly meagre. Does this report from the Fairbridge school (the best example of the strategy of migration within the Empire) mean that the appeal of this Paradise begins to be realised ? The Child Emigration Society (Savoy House, Strand) has a peculiar claim on the support both of the Government and the individual.
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