ABSTRACT
The Sub-Committee appointed to report upon the most advisable mode of insuring to female emigrants a proper reception on reaching the ports of their destination in our colonies, have deemed it expedient to include in their report the information which, in the course of their inquiries, they have collected on several other points connected with the present undertaking. The eligibility of applicants for admission into the ‘home’ should be decided upon by a subcommittee, assisted by a matron conversant with colonial life and its requirements, and by a surgeon. The anxiety of the sub-committee on this point has been greatly relieved by the communications which they have had with the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, who have most readily placed at the disposal of the committee the machinery already established in our colonies for securing to the new-comers the same protection, aid, and guidance which they are in the habit of affording to parties who emigrate under their own direction.
