Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1910 — TASMANIA WANTS GIRLS. [ARTICLE]

TASMANIA WANTS GIRLS.

Race Famine Create* Opportunities for Unmarried Women. I have just go.t a newspaper from Hobart, the capital of the colony, in which an appeal is made to the “women of the world” to “come over and help us” in Tasmania, “Britisher” writes to the New York Sun. “Send Us Girls," is the heading of a column. There is no “race suicide” in Tasmania, but there is “a race famine.” My Anglo-Indian friend of whom I wrote is a living example of this “race struggle.” He has five children, all grown up. The eldest, a woman, is married and has three boys. The eldest son has taken a wife, but he has *Wo boys and no girls. There are three unmarried sons remaining and no wives can be had. Col. Moore, the prime minister of western Australia, who is now in London, re-echoes the cry, “Send us girls!” “Our farmers want wives,” he says In a letter to a London paper. Consequently applications have been pouring into the offices of the Emigration Society, 15 Victoria street, London, B; C., and it is said that a party of picked women will start before the end of May to the number of at least 100. They will be taken to Perth, the capital of western Australia, and then transhipped to Tasmania or any part of the Australian world they may select. The fare to Perth is only $25 and there will be a matron in charge of the party. In the Hobart paper there is an amusing incident recorded. Three young dressmakers from the borders of Wales had formed a sort of joint stock company with a view to starting business at Hobart, but they had been Interviewed at Perth and when the ship entered port at Hobart three successful young farmers, each owning his farm “free and clear,” stepped on board and sought an introduction from the captain. The result was that the three young ladles, accompanied by the first officer of the ship and the stewardess, went to the nearest Church. of England and three knots were tied. Three fine rigs awaited the happy couples and off they started amid a shower of rice and old slippers.