Tt has been customary to view the daily press photographs of the lorrival from Great Britain of hulk ing fine specimens of manhood and ti underneath the photograph the information thst they are small bro. thers from England being grested This may appear ambiguous but "Big" brothers in Australi
nevertheless, the small brother often the bigger man of the two. So much prominence has been given this method of obtaining suitable fmigrents than few people realize that the movement, which caught on well and fas proved 20. success-fat, has only: been in existence a mere 12 month>. At their fret annual mectiny Lord Somers, the new Governor of Victoria, presided, and, im the course of his speech he re:
"There is an opinion in England that the best Loys should not be sent overseas. Those who hare wider vision, however, realize that it is England's greatest in.' surance."
How true the foregoing remark is has yet to be proved, and perhaps many of us may not live to witness that day half-a-century or more henes. Daring the last 12 months 817 boys have left England to make their home: in Australia, sil of whom will have the guidance guide them inthe unaccustomed ways of our country. Few other! inds are able to boast the opport-_ junities which are foisted upon this! Hform of migrant, who is travelling de luxe upon the high road of for-féune, for though he may not in many cases possess any capital he is Jat least supplied with the means of obtaining the shrewd capita: ct 2 keen business man's brain, which, after all, is often more valuable than the actual bank balance itself. For ithe one is there for a considerable period, asd the other has a habit lof diminishing with astonishing ra-Pidity when faced with a paucity of the buying value of a pound note, whether for farming implements, horses, cattle or for the more prosaic situations of an iron-mongery store, a vegetable and fruit mart, a tobacconist or any other trade or calling. The new Governor is becoming a Big Brother, good Tuck to him,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.