South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 8 (of 8): South Africa and Its Future
History
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 8 (of 8): South Africa and Its Future
South African War, 1899-1902; Transvaal (South Africa) -- History
In Cape Colony and the larger towns of South Africa, the
openings will be chiefly for all-round Domestics, and women in
Professions and Business; up the country in the New
Territories, for women who as Working Housekeepers can utilise
native labour. Teachers will be wanted in all the Provinces.
Employees will be sent out as soon as employers apply for them
and Government Authorities consent. Women who intend to settle
up-country should meanwhile perfect themselves in cooking and
all household matters, adding a knowledge of dairy work,
poultry, and bee-keeping.
Travellers going through the Association who have to sleep in
London, can be received at 3s. 6d. per day. Three days' notice
must be given.
Only women of good character, health, and capability, are
accepted by the South African Expansion Committee, in whose
hands the selection of women to South Africa has been placed.
Protection is secured to them till they enter the situations
found for them in the Colonies.
[Illustration: Photo: Elliott & Fry, London.
SIR HENRY M'CALLUM, K.C.M.G.
Governor of Natal.]
But fully as important as the emigration of adults will be the placing
of children in well-selected places in South Africa. The object to be
attained is to let children grow up in the country so that they may
regard it as their own, and that their early home affection may be
largely connected with their adopted land. The difficulty of the
selection of children is as nothing compared with the difficulty of the
selection of adults. Nor are the objections often raised in a new
community against the importation of the last, heard against the first.
A wide experience has shown that children are eagerly sought by farmers,
and are "placed out" with ease. The remarkable success Dr. Barnardo has
had in Canada, to which country he has sent between twelve and thirteen
thousand children, has proved this. The number of failures has been only
about 1 per cent. Nor is this a haphazard statement. Watch and ward have
been kept over the fortunes of the youngsters. They have been carefully
placed after due negotiation and correspondence, and each has been
reported upon after settlement. The success obtained is best gauged by
the ever-increasing number of applications for just such boys and girls
as have been previously "located." Every year of late years there have
been three great parties sent across the Atlantic, and the cry is ever
for more to come. In spring, in midsummer, and in "the fall," the
children have been taken out. Entrained on arriving in Canada, the
farmers have come down to meet them at the various stations, and they
have been at once taken to their new homes, where they have almost
uniformly given satisfaction to their employers. They are growing up
hearty, happy Canadians, and many hundred letters arrive from them at
Stepney where they were trained, telling how they are "getting on."
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