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Field name | Value |
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Title | Sedgwick Migration Scrapbook 13: Arrival in New Zealand with Boys, 1911 |
Date | Oct-Nov 1911 |
Document Type | Newspaper; Correspondence |
Publisher Information | Eyre and Spottiswoode, London |
Reference | RCMS 31/1/266-290, Box 4, Volume 1, Folder |
Library / Archive | Cambridge University Library |
Collection Name | Thomas E. Sedgwick's Migration Scrapbooks, 1910-1914 |
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. |
Biographical Note / History | 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. |
Theme(s) | Responses to Immigration; Motives for Emigration |
Country (from) | Great Britain |
Country (to) | New Zealand; Australia |
Places | Canada |
Ports | London, Liverpool, England |
Nationality | English; European; Canadian |
People | Sedgwick, Thomas Edward; Pelham, T H W; Tavernier, J; Lidiard, Florence |
Keywords | emigration scheme, shipping, children, agriculture, farming, labour, employment, government, farm school, colony conditions, apprenticeship, politics, unemployment, economics, push factor, living conditions, finance, pension, societies, application, female emigration, domestic service, women, nurse, factory, servant, legislation |
Language | English |
Copyright | Cambridge University Library |