REPLIES.
EMIGRATION.- Many working-class correspondents
have written asking about present
prospects in the Colonies. I have received
the following from the Emigrants' Information
Office, 31, Broadway, Westminster. As
usual, there is a great demand for domestics.
Persons with capital are wanted in all the
Colonies. There is a large demand in
Canada at the present time for railway
labourers - such as permanent way men,
trackmen, platelayers, pick and shovel men,
navvies, carters, stablemen, and teamsters -
hundreds of miles of railway being under
construction. There is also an excellent
demand for capable men and boys who understand
farm work. All such emigrants
should start at once, so as to be there before
harvest. There is also the usual unsatisfied
demand for female servants. The demand
for mechanics is not so urgent, but hard
working men in the building, metal and
engineering trades should have little
difficulty in procuring employment at good
wages. Coal miners have a very fair opening
in Novia Scotia and British Columbia.
In Australia the demand for labour has
considerably improved, and New South Wales,
Queensland, and Western Australia all give
assisted passages to emigrants. The
principal demand is in country districts,
and emigrants should make for these on
landing, and not linger in the large towns.
Competent men who can do general work on
a farm, in a garden or orchard, or on a
sheep or cattle station, will find work at
good wages. Western Australia makes free
grants of 160 acres to settlers. Farm
labourers are not recommended to go on to
the sugar farms in the tropical districts of
Queensland, until, at all events, they have
become acclimatised. The demand for
mechanics is less, but skilled carpenters,
bricklayers, and masons can obtain work
without difficulty. There is a demand for
skilled miners and mechanics at the large
Broken Hill Silver Mines in New South
Wales. There is a good demand for female
servants in all parts. New Zealand grants
reduced passages to agriculturists with a
little capital, and to female servants who
possess œ2 on landing. There is a good
demand for such persons. Work has been
fairly plentiful for mechanics and labourers
in all trades, and there has been a demand
for carpenters in places. There is a demand
for female machinists and workers in the
boot and clothing factories. South Africa
offers no attractions to emigrants at the
present time, and persons who cannot
support themselves are not allowed to land.
