Sedgwick Migration Scrapbook 13: Arrival in New Zealand with Boys, 1911 : Newspaper; Correspondence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Migration to new worlds.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Description: Newspaper articles and correspondence relay concerns and social impressions of Mr Sedgwick's scheme, as well as wider emigration to New Zealand and Canada. The notion that living conditions and financial opportunities are better from British emigrants in the Colonies is debated throughout the material. The shortage and need for female workers in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada is also a regular feature of newspaper clippings. Finally, a copy of the 'Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905' is also included.

Notes:

In 1911 Thomas Edward Sedgwick organised for a group of 50 boys to be sent from England to New Zealand on board the S.S. Authentic before the outbreak of the First World War. They were sent as part of an experiment to ascertain whether young British boys might help alleviate a shortage of farm labourers in New Zealand and offer a solution to the declining levels of employment opportunities in the crowded British cities. They were trained in all aspects of farming life, and the wages they earnt were paid to the Labour Department while the boys were awarded weekly pocket money.

AMDigital Reference: RCMS 31/1/266-290, Box 4, Volume 1, Folder.

Description based on online resource (viewed on October 24, 2017).

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