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iax about the 10th of March, and we will have a chartered ship every two 

 weeks after that. Besides that, we have made reservations on the C. P. R. 

 lines running into St. John and the Allan Line from Glasgow to Halifax, and 

 also the Dominion line running to Halifax. We have reserved space on the 

 boats coming to St. John and Halifax during the season for something over 

 10,000 people. These will pass through the Maritime Provinces and will be 

 in my hands to place, so far as the distribution of them is concerned, and as 

 many will be placed in the Maritime Provinces as are required. We endeavor 

 in dealing with these people to consider the highest good of the individual 

 we are dealing with, as well as the country they are coming from and the 

 country they are going to. Our policy is careful selection on the other side, 

 wise handling of the people while they are in our hands, and the suitable 

 placing of them in this country. 



HON. MR. TWEEDIE You don't deal with the criminal classes 



at all ? 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS No ; we do not bring the criminal or 

 worthless classes. There is a class of people that is really worse than the 

 criminal class, and that is the worthless class, the people who are not fond 

 of work, and we endeavor to sift these out and bring only the class of 

 people suitable to this country. And although there are a large number of 

 people deported every year, yet out of the 20,000 already brought to this 

 country by the Salvation Army, less than twenty of that number have been 

 deported as unsuitable. 



One of the difficulties we have to deal with in the Maritime Provinces is 

 that the season is so short here, because as soon as navigation opens in the 

 St. Lawrence the vessels all go to Montreal, and we find it very difficult to 

 get these people to come back here. They seem to think it is a going back, 

 and they prefer to go on to Ontario and the West. Last year we did succeed 

 in getting a few to come down from Quebec ; but they were influenced 

 against their will and did not give very good satisfaction. They did not 

 Jttle down, and a number of them, after all, went to Ontario and some of 

 ihem to the West. 



1 might say we do not handle boys and girls. There are institutions 

 which do handle boys and girls ; but so far the Army has not done so. We 

 do handle domestics ; but we can only supply about one for every ten appli- 

 cations we receive. We bring a good class of domestics above the ordinary 



