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IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
Vol. VIII. No. 88. 
men at Perth, especially for those in the building trades ; that 
there was no demand at Fremantle, Geraldton, Collie, or 
Busselton ; that there were many unemployed at Coolgardie, 
Kalgoorlie, Kanowna, and neighbouring goldfields ; that at 
Northam, there was a very good demand for mechanics and 
unskilled labourers ; and that in many agricultural d riots in 
the south-west there was always a good demand for competent 
farm labourers, able to milk, work machinery, and take care of 
horses; female servants were wanted in nearly all districts. 
(New Zealand). — The clothing trade has been very busy at 
Auckland, Napier, Wanganui, Palmerston North, New 
Plymouth, Westport, Hokitika, Christchurch, Invercargill and 
elsewhere. The building trades have been busy generally, 
especially at Auckland, Gisborne, Napier, New Plymouth, 
Westport, Christchurch and Invercargill ; but at Dunedin 
many men are out of work. The engineering trade is fairly 
well employed, especially at Westport and Timaru, and for 
blacksmiths and boilermakers at Auckland, hut at Dunedin 
many are unemployed. Flax and saw mills have been busy in 
several places. There has been plenty of work for unskilled 
labour at shearing and harvesting. 
South Africa {Cape Colony). — No one is now allowed to 
land in South Africa without a permit. This must be applied 
for at the Permit Office, 47, Victoria-street, London, S.W. 
The applicant must possess £100, or prove that he is in a posi- 
tion to maintain himself in South Africa. Applicants living 
within fifty miles of London must apply in person. These 
permits are no guarantee that the holders will be allowed to 
proceed inland. The Permit Office does not include persons 
wishing to go out to farm, without any definite farm in prospect, 
amongst those having knowledge of a trade or profession. There 
is a good demand for skilled mechanics in many places. (Natal). 
— With reference to the demand for mechanics in Natal, which 
was mentioned last month, the Agent-General has already 
received applications for passages from a far larger number of 
carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, masons, and painters than he 
has authority to send to the colony. There have been disputes 
in the building trade at Pietermaritzburg on the question of 
wages. These have been settled by raising the wages of 
carpenters and joiners to 15s. a day, instead of 14s. Carpenters 
and coachbuilders in the railway workshops are agitating for 
increased pay, partly on account of the increased cost of living. 
There is still a large demand for labour in the colony, especially 
in the building trades, but emigrants must remember that they 
must pay their own passages, that the cost of living in Natal ,is 
now high, and that they will not be allowed to land unless they 
first obtain a permit from the Permit Office, 47, Victoria-street, 
S.W. (Orange River Colony and Transvaal).— Although the 
output of gold in the Transvaal is increasing, only refugees, 
Government employees, and persons engaged in a service of a 
public nature will be permitted to proceed to the Transvaal. 
Candidates for the South African Constabulary should apply to 
The Recruiting Officer, S.A.C. Recruiting Office, King’s-court, 
Broadway, Westminster, S.W. ; they must be good riders, good 
shots, single, strictly sober, and from 20 to 35 years of "age ; 
they will be given free passages to South Africa. Farriers also 
are wanted for this Force. 
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EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION. 
*** The Imperial Institute acts in concert with the Emigrants' 
Information Office ( which is tinder the direction of the 
Colonial Office), of Jr, Broadway, Westminster, S. W. ; 
and also with the British Women's Emigration Asso- 
ciation, now temporarily carrying on its work in 
rooms at the Institute. The Handbooks and Quarterly 
Circulars issued by the Emigrants' Information Office 
may be obtained at the Commercial Intelligence Office . 
Special information and practical advice respecting 
Canada and Cape Colony will also be furnished by the 
Curators of these Sections. 
UNITED KINGDOM. 
Alien Immigration (Royal Commission).— It appears from 
the Gazette that the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration 
is to enquire into and report upon : — 
(1) The character and extent of the evils which are attrib- 
uted to the unrestricted immigration of aliens, especially in 
the metropolis. 
(2) The measures which have been adopted for the re- 
striction and control of alien immigration in foreign countries 
and in British colonies ; 
And to advise what remedial or precautionary measures it 
is desirable to adopt in this country, having regard to the 
above matters and to the absence of any statutory power to 
exclude or expel any individual alien or class of aliens from 
its borders. 
The Commissioners are Lord James of Hereford, Lord 
Rothschild, the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, K.C., Sir Kenelm 
F.dward Digby, K.C.B., Undersecretary for the Home Depart- 
ment, Major W. E. F.vans-Gordon, m. p. for Stepney, Mr. Henry 
Norman, m.p,, and Mr. William Vallance, clerk to the Guard- 
ians of Whitechapel. The Commission is invested with the 
usual powers to examine witnesses and call for documents. 
British Women’s Emigration Association.— The hon. 
secretary of the British Women’s Emigration Association reports 
497 applications in the month ended March si. An alteration 
has been made in the dates of the Protected Parties to Canada 
for this season, as s.s. Vancouver has been transferred from the 
Atlantic to the Mediterranean service. After the special parties 
in s.s. Dominion on March 27 and s.s. Colonial on April 16, 
the monthly parties with the matron will lie sent in s.s. 
Dominion on May 1, June 5, July 17, August 21, September 2}, 
October 30. 
Some young men have been advised to join the personally 
conducted parties to the North-Western Territories, planned by 
the Manitoba Government, for April 3, 15 and 22, May \ and 13. 
The fifth annual report of the Girls' Home of Welcome 
at Winnepeg has just come to hand. During the season 676 
inmates passed through the Home. A party for Australia will 
sail under especially good escort in s.s. Austral at the 17 guinea 
rate, deck cabin. The next group for the Cape will leave by 
s.s. Galatea, April 19. 
Progress is being made in the way of the reception of young 
women in Rhodesia by the provision of a hostel at Salisbury, 
where they can lodge on their arrival until suited with employ- 
ment. A hostel is very much needed at Durban, and the South 
African Committee of the British Women's Emigration Associa- 
tion is anxious to help the local committee to open one there. 
A well-attended meeting of the South African General Com- 
mittee and their friends was held at 20, Arlington-street, by the 
kind permission of Lord Salisbury, on March 19. The Lady 
Knightley^of Fawsley, chairwoman of the South African Ex- 
pansion Committee, in her opening words, explained that the 
committee was the outcome of Mr. Chamberlain’s speech at the 
annual meeting of the British Women's Emigration Association 
a year ago. It had worked hard during the ten months of its 
existence, and had formed sub-committees for each separate 
territory in South Africa, to obtain information, and keep in 
touch with leading persons in each colony. 
Mrs. Fawcett said she had returned from South Africa 
strongly impressed with the importance of sending out British 
women. 
Mr. Asquith, M.p., spoke of ignorance having been one of 
the chief causes of the difficulties we had had to contend with, 
and no greater boon could be conferred than to send out an 
increasing supply of well-qualified teachers. 
Mr. Evelyn Cecil, M.P., one of the treasurers of the Special 
South African Fund, gave some statistics of the work done since 
the Committee was formed in May last, and mentioned that a 
donation of £500 had recently been received from Messrs. 
Rothschilds. 
It was announced that the Annual Meeting of the British 
Women’s Emigration Association would take place on Thurs- 
day April 24, at 4 p. in., Lord Selborne in the chair. The 
annual report to be presented on that occasion gives the 
following details : — The number of applications in the year, 
3,851 ; the number of persons who emigrated through the 
Association during 1901 was 458 ; these were distributed as 
follows: — To Canada, 141, South Africa, 196, Australia, 85, 
New Zealand, 13, United States of America, 5 (the balance, 18, 
is children included in families). Sixty-five cases had help from 
the Loan Fund ; eighteen loans were repaid in full during the 
year, the others are being repaid. 
The scheme for opening a “British Women's Hostel" in 
London is progressing satisfactorily. Negotiations are pro- 
ceeding for renting a good house within easy reach of Euston 
and the other principal railway stations. ^200 has already 
been promised towards the Guarantee Fund, and donations for 
initial expenses amount so far to ^93. Furnishing is likely to 
cost ^300, and assistance may be given either in the form of gifts 
now, or promises of subscriptions, or help towards the Guarantee 
Fund. Contributions will be received and acknowledged by 
Susan, Countess of Malmesbury, 113, Queen’s-gate, London, 
S.W., or may be sent to the hon, sec., British Women's 
Emigration Office, Imperial Institute. 
Emigration from Ireland. — According to the emigration 
statistics of Ireland the emigration rate for last year was nine 
per t,ooo, a slight decrease as compared with the previous year. 
Of the total— 39,870 persons— 18,343 were males and 21,527 
females, as compared with a total of 47,107 in 1900. 
Of the 18,343 males who emigrated, 1,806, or 9'8 per cent., 
were returned as married men or widowers ; and of the 21,527 
females enumerated, 2,958, or 13*7 per cent., were described as 
married or widowed. Of the 16,927 persons between the ages 
of twenty and twenty-five years, 245 only were married — 44 males 
and 201 females. 
Of the 39,613 natives of Ireland who emigrated in 1901, 
33.349. or 8 4‘2 per cent., went to the colonies or to foreign 
countries ; and 6,264, or *5 ’8 P er cent., to Great Britain. The 
United States of America absorbed 31,942, or 8o'6 percent., 
of the number of these emigrants in 1901, compared with an 
average of 32,453, or 85-8 per cent. , for the four preceding years. 
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CUSTOMS TARIFFS. 
UNITED KINGDOM. 
Drawback on Export of Castor and Icing Sugar. — 
According to a General Order (No. 12 of 1902) recently issued 
by the Commissioners of H.M. Customs for the guidance of 
their officers, castor and icing sugar made in the United 
Kingdom from duty-paid foreign refined sugar may be exported 
on drawback, as well as that made from home refined sugar, 
subject to compliance with the regulations as to shipment laid 
down by General Order No. 65 of 1901. Copies of both the 
1901 and present Orders may be seen by those interested at the 
Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade, 
50, Parliament-street, S.W., any day between the hours of 
10 a.m. and 5 p.m. 
COLONIES. 
Australian Commonwealth. — The Commonwealth of 
Australia Gazette, dated 24th January, 1902, contains a Customs 
Bye-law, issued by the Department of Trade of Customs on the 
23rd January last, notifying that the following machine tools 
used in the undermentioned industries are admitted into the 
Commonwealth free of duty : — 
Machine Tools. 
Bookbinding. 
Hacking, bench presses, bevelling, binding, blocking, 
book-rolling, book-rounding, case-rolling, case-cleaning, 
case-making, cutting, eyeletting, embossing, finishing press 
and stand, folding, glueing, indexing, laying presses, 
nipping presses, numbering, paging, paring, perforating, 
punching, ruling, scoring, stand presses, stapling, trimming, 
wire-stitching machines. 
Bootmaking. — 
Accessories to stitching machines being Gem insole, 
inseam trimming, stitch separating, turn moulding, welt 
beating, button fastening, channel openers, counter 
moulders, hooking, pattern cutting and grading, pegging, 
power hammer, pricker (four-stitch), rand compressing, 
rand splitting, rand turning, sole rounding, standard 
screwing, staple fasteners, strap (printing and covering), 
treeing, tying (shoe), upper blocking and cleaning, vamp 
beading, folding and marking. 
Brushmaking. — 
Boring, cutting, filling, flue or bottle brush machine, 
shaping, trimming. 
Glassmaking and Working . — 
Patent presses, roughing mills, sandblasting, 
/fatmaking . — 
Hydraulic blocking press for making straw hats. 
Indiarubber Working . — 
Hose machines, steel stamps, steel tire mandrils, spreading 
thread drums, washer cutting. 
Metal Working . — 
Arbor or mandrel presses, cutter making, Machine tools 
for electrotyping, stereotyping, and photo engraving, viz., 
backing presses, bevelling, casting moulds, curved cutting- 
off cylinder, curved finishing cylinder, curving for electro- 
plate, electrotype, hydraulic moulding presses, matrix- 
roiling, plate thinning, shaving, squaring, trimming, facing, 
flanging, horseshoe, mitreing, nail making, measuring 
machines, profiling, riveting, rivet making, straightening, 
type-casting and finishing machines, washer making, 
welding, wire netting. 
Paper Finishing , Cutting , and Folding . — 
Rending and creasing — cutting, viz., card, guillotine, 
label, lever, millboard, rotary cutting and grooving, rotary 
cutting and scoring — damping, envelope making, glazing 
and hot rolling, labelling, machines for coating and 
finishing, paper bag and paper box making, varnishing 
paper, wrapping. 
Stone Working . — 
Litho stone grinding. 
Tile, Pipe, and Brick Making . — 
Blungers, filter presses, grinding milt for enamels, 
colours, glazes, and Hint, magnetiser, moulding machines, 
press stamps, sifters/stilt, spur, and thimble presses. 
Bermuda. — Customs Tariff. — The Bermuda Supply and 
Appropriation Act, 1901-2 (No. 2 of 1901), providing for the 
imposition of duties on articles imported into the colony during 
the year ended 30th June, 1902. 
The present Act re-imposes all duties previously in force 
except that certain articles which have hitherto been liable 
under the “ unenumerated ” rate to a duty of 5 percent, ad. val., 
are now separately distinguished in the Tariff, and are liable to 
duty as follows : — 
Articles. Import Duty Leviable. 
Eggs 3d. per dozen. 
Poultry, dead . . . . .16 per cent, ad- valorem. 
Bananas, from 1st December to 1st June Free. 
Articles, the property of any foreign or 
British Colonial Government im- 
ported into these islands for use at 
or in connection with any establish- 
ment or institution in these islands 
maintained by such Govern mer + 
solely for scientific purposes, o*. 
proof to the satisfaction of the 
Receiver-General that such articles 
have been so imported ... ,, 
Canada.— Tariff Amendments, by Orders in Council, 
dated 12TH AND 13TII FEBRUARY, 1902. — The Canada 
Gazette of the 22nd February last contains certain Orders in 
Council, notifying that the following articles may, in pursuance 
of the provisions of the Customs Act, be imported into Canada 
free of duty : — 
1. Silver tubing, when imported by manufacturers of silver- 
ware to be used in their own factories in the manufacture of 
silverware. 
2. Steel castings in the rough for the manufacture of 
scissors and hand shears, when imported by manufacturers of 
scissors and hand shears to be used in making such articles in 
their own factories. 
3. Materials which enter into the construction and form 
part of cream separators, when imported by manufacturers of 
cream separators to be used in their own factories for the 
manufacture of such articles. 
4. Yarns of jute, flax or hemp, for the manufacture of 
towels, when imported by the manufacturers of jute, linen or 
union towels, to be used in their own factories for the manu- 
facture of such articles. 
5. Steel, for the manufacture of cutler}', when imported bv 
manufacturers of cutlery to be used in their own factories for 
the manufacture of such articles. 
6. Hemp bleaching compound, when imported by manu- 
facturers of rope to be used in their own factories for the 
manufacture of rope. 
Reduction of Duty on Printing Paper.— The same 
Gazette contains an Order in Council, dated nth February, 1902, 
reducing, under the provisions of sub-section 3 of section 18 of 
“ The Customs Tariff, 1897," the Customs import duty on news 
printing paper in sheets and rolls, including all printing paper 
valued at not more than 2 j cents per lb. , from 25 per cent, ad val. 
to 15 per cent, ad val. 
[Note. — If the “printing paper ’’ so imported enjoys the 
benefits of the British Preferential Tariff Act, a further reduction 
of one- third of the duty is allowed.] 
New Zealand. — Export Duty on Timber. — The 
“Timber Export Act, 1901" (No. 63 of 1901), dated 8th 
November, 1901, empowers the Governor to levy, by Order- 
in-Council, a duty on various kinds of timber exported from 
New Zealand, as follows : — • 
Logs, round \ 
Logs, square with axe or saw . 
Half-logs ....... 
Hitches of any particular kind, or pieces of 
such size as the Governor by Order-in- 
Council from time to time determines . j 
Export Duty, 
s, d. 
3 0 
per 100 super- 
ficial feet. 
Provision is also made in the Act for the master or agent of 
every ship in which it is intended to ship for export timber 
liable to duty, to give not less than 24 hours’ notice to the 
Collector or other proper officer of Customs of such intention, 
and in such form as the Commissioner may direct by regulation. 
Flax to be graded before Exportation. — The “Flax 
Grading Act and Export Act, 1901," provides that ; — “No flax 
shall be shipped or placed on board any ship for exportation to 
any place beyond New Zealand unless it has been inspected by 
an officer duly authorised in that behalf, and graded by him 
according to regulations made by the Governor under this 
Act.” 
St. Christopher and Nevis.— Ordinance (No. 16 of 1901), 
assented to by the Administrator on the 17th December, 1901 , 
provides that the following Ordinances shall be continued in 
force until the 31st December, 1902 : — 
1. The Additional Customs Tariff Ordinance, 1896 (No. 5 
of 1896)* imposing an additional import duty of is. 6d. per 
barrel on wheat flour, 20 per cent, additional on the present 
duties on alcoholic liquors, and 10 per cent, additional on the 
present duties on all other articles subject to duty. 
2. The Export Duty Ordinance of 1898 (No. 1 of 1898), 
imposing export duties on sugar and rum, as follows : — 
Sugar, per hogshead, not above 42 inches truss . 
>> tierce ,, 30 ,, 
,, ,, barrel ....... 
,, in other packages . . . per ton 
Rum, per 100 gallons ...... 
s. d. 
4 8 
3 2 
o 6£ 
4 8 
3 6 
* It was provided by Ordinances Nos. 5 of 1S98 and 6 of 1900, that 
the additional duties imposed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1896 should not 
apply to petroleum and its products, ale, beer, porter, stout, perry, cider, 
brandy, whisky, tea, leaf tobacco (if imported xn packages containing not 
less than 500 lb.), manufactured tobacco and snuff. 
Excise Duty.— A copy of an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1901) 
has also been received, continuing until the 31st December, 
1902, the “ Rum Duty Ordinance, 1896,” by which an additional 
duty was imposed of 20 per cent, on the duty of 3s. per proof 
gallon leviable upon rum manufactured in the Presidency. 
St. Lucia. — Free Importation of Certain Articles. 
— An Order in Council, dated 27th December, 1901, notifies 
that the Governor has, with the approval of the Legislative 
Council, added the following articles to the table of exemptions 
from import duty in the second schedule to the Customs Tariff 
Ordinance, No. 12 of 1895 : — 
s. Alcohol (pure), chemicals, materials and apparatus im- 
ported exclusively for medical or other scientific investigations, 
upon a statutory declaration being made to the satisfaction of 
the treasurer that they have been so imported. 
2. Blood stock, imported for breeding purposes or for im- 
prov ng the breed of animals in the colony, upon a statutory 
declaration being made to the satisfaction of the Governor in 
Council as to the qualities of such stock. 
Trinidad and Tobago.— Amended Import Duties. — 
A copy of a resolution passed by the Legislative Council on 
the 3rd February amends the rates of duty imposed on certain 
