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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71

Church Emigration Society

page 70

Church Emigration Society.

This Society is established to promote the interests of such settlers proceeding to the Colonies as may be associated with the Church of England. Its methods are eminently practical, and provide the connecting link between the bishops and clergy of the mother country, and the Colonial Dioceses. Its honorary correspondents in the British dependencies communicate the demand for good emigrants, and the Society at home carefully selects such suitable men and women, as are able to pay their own passage money. These, after careful enquiries have been made, are furnished with introductions and certificates of character, and have the advantage of being befriended upon their arrival.

It is indeed another and a very practical application of the term "direct from the producer to the consumer." Some idea of the scope of its organization can be gleaned from the fact that there are 164 Honorary Secretaries at home, and 65 in the Colonies. Local branches of the Society have been established at Maidstone, Tunbridg Wells, Stoke, Sleaforth, Kensington, Holt, Humbleyard, Trawbridge, Trammere and Cheetham.

During 1891, 243 out of 361 applicants were comfortably placed in the Colony, which speaks well, not only for the care with which the Secretaries investigate every case before submitting it to the central authority, but also fur the efficacy of the colonial organizations.

Applications should he addressed through the Passenger Agents as usual, who will provide the necessary forms and passage tickets.