adequate and systematic inspection in the case of very young girls. The Sub-Committee agree in this opinion so far as to think that this class of cases should be dealt with by special arrangements with the Canadian clergy and ministers. This Report has dealt almost exclusively with Canada, because Canada is more than ever, in most cases, the best place for an emigrant, if he be a labourer or unskilled artisan, or for domestic servants to go to. Not only is the cost of passage less, but the demand for labour is at present more certain and steady than in any other colony. In Australia wages are high and there is generally work to be got, but the agitation of labour questions and the prevalence of strikes have introduced an element of uncertainty into the position of a newly-arrived workman, unless he have a friend's home to welcome him. The Sub-Committee's thanks are again due to the Ladies' Committee at Leamington, presided over by Miss Butler, who have provided many outfits for our emigrants. The place of distribution of the outfits will in future be at Mrs. Vatcher's, St. Philip's Vicarage, Newark Street (late New Street), Stepney, who has kindly undertaken it for the present, instead of at Leamington. The Sub-Committee have also to thank their correspondents in different colonies for the information sent to them. Annexed is a Memorandum by Mr. Loch on the present work of the Emigration Sub-Committee and East-End Emigration Fund at Newark Street; and tabular statements of the destinations and of the occupations of the emigrants, a summary of returns for 1886-91, &c. be 1. MEMORANDUM ON THE WORK OF THE EMIGRATION SUB-COMMITTEE AND EAST-END EMIGRATION FUND, AT NEWARK STREET, STEPNEY. Some notes on the work done this year at Newark Street may useful. In the Record Book of District Committee cases, 19 cases were brought forward as unfinished at the beginning of the official year-October 1. Fifty-two new cases were added by the end of February, and 21 were entered in March. Thus, up to the end of March, these cases numbered 92; and from a half to rather more than a third of them were, it was thought, referred to Newark Street in the first instance by District Committees. In all of them assistance had been given and would probably be given within the present year. In most of them the money required for emigration had been or would be collected from the District Committee of the Society, the Emigration Sub-Committee, and the East-End Emigration Fund. In not a few cases relations made considerable payments. Besides these 92 cases, there were 93 cases not yet settled. In these the statements of the applicants had been taken down, but the inquiry was not complete, or on some other ground no decision had yet been arrived at respecting them. 129 cases had been rejected; 90 were extra Metropolitan, and ad, therefore, been taken up by the East-End Fund direct. Thus, in all, the cases dealt with in the year up to the end of March numbered more than 400. Besides this 400 there are many applicants who ask for information, but who, after conversation with the Secretaries, do not proceed further. The cases submitted to the Emigration Sub-Committee and the Committee of the East-End Fund are, it will be understood, only the cases which have been sifted and considered to be, on the whole, suitable for emigration. The 129 rejected cases do not come before the Committees at all. sending cases to The Church Emigration Society is, I learn, District Committees direct for inquiry and report. These would not come within the knowledge of either the Sub-Committee or the Fund. It has also sent cases to Newark Street office for advice and for investigation, which, when the cases are not extra-Metropolitan, has been undertaken by the District Committee. Some six cases have also been sent to the Newark Street office by the United British Women's Emigration Society, and have been forwarded to District Committees for inquiry. I think that some re-arrangement of the work is necessary in order to increase the personal interest of members of the Sub-Committee in the cases, and to provide for the growing demands on the time of the Hon. Secretary of the Fund, Capt. Gretton, and of the Joint Secretary, Mr. Barratt. |