Assisted Passages to Canada-contd. In the event of any alteration in the ocean passage rate for children, the above-mentioned grants will be liable to modification. In these circumstances, it has been arranged in agreement with the approved Child Migration Societies, that children will, in approved cases, be taken by them to Canada for a fixed contribution of £24 for each child. In return for this sum, the Migration Societies will provide the child with an outfit and pay all the expenses of transportation, etc., but they would charge an additional agreed sum for maintenance for any period during which the child was in the home belonging to them in this country for a period immediately prior to embarkation. There would, of course, be no objection to the Guardians themselves providing outfits should they so desire, and they would then make any necessary adjustment in the fixed sum payable to the Migration Societies. (e) Other persons.-Persons who are not eligible to receive assistance under schemes with the Canadian Government, but who are approved as migrants, may, in certain cases, receive assistance under schemes arranged with the Salvation Army, British Dominions Emigration Society, and the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women (women and children only) Enquiries on the subject should be addressed to BRITISH DOMINIONS EMIGRATION SOCIETY, THE SALVATION ARMY, STEPNEY, E.1. 3, UPPER THAMES STREET, E.C.4. THE SOCIETY FOR THE OVERSEA SETTLEMENT OF BRITISH WOMEN, TOTHILL STREET, WESTMINSTER, S. W.1. 3.-Assisted Passages to New Zealand. Assisted Passages to New Zealand can only, as a general rule, be provided in respect of experienced female household workers, and of persons who have relatives or friends in New Zealand who can nominate them (i.e., guarantee employment and a home). Applications from persons who appear to fulfil these conditions should, in the first_instance, be addressed to the Migration Officer for New Zealand, 415, Strand, London, W.C.2. A memorandum is appended describing the procedure which should be followed in making applications for sanction to expenditure on migration. With regard to the system followed in Canada in the settlement of children migrated from this country, attention is invited to the Report of the British Oversea Settlement Delegation to Canada, 1924 (Cmd. 2285), copies of which have already been circulated to Boards of Guardians. MEMORANDUM (APPENDIX I). PROCEDURE IN APPLICATIONS FOR SANCTION TO EXPENDITURE ON MIGRATION. 1. It has been arranged that in all cases where migration is considered desirable by Boards of Guardians, the Oversea Settlement Department should conduct the preliminary investigations and make a recommendation to the Minister of Health. It will be convenient if applications for sanction are sent in the first instance to the Oversea Settlement Department, Caxton House, Tothill Street, Westminster, S. W.1. The attention of Boards of Guardians is accordingly invited to the amended procedure laid down in the following paragraphs. 2. No person, whether an adult or child, can be migrated against his or her will, and in the case of an orphan or deserted child, the child's consent must be given either before the Justices in Petty Sessions or before a Stipendiary Magistrate, and a certificate of the consent, signed by two of the Justices or by the Stipendiary Magistrate, must be forwarded to the Oversea Settlement Department. 3. Before recommending expenditure upon migration the Oversea Settlement Department will require to be satisfied (a) that suitable arrangements are being made for the protection of the migrants (see paragraphs 4 and 5 as to the arrangements prescribed in the case of children migrated without their parents); and (b) that no objection to the migrants is raised by the representative in this country of the Dominion or Colony to which the migrants are to go. 4.-(a) The migration of Poor Law children without their parents has hitherto been practically confined to migration to Canada through recognised Child Migration Societies and, for the protection of this class of migrant, it is necessary that the following documents, in addition to the consent referred to in paragraph (2) above, should accompany the Guardians' application, namely: (i) a definite assurance that the persons to whom the care of the children is to be entrusted have a reasonable prospect of finding homes for the children in Canada, and will comply with the requirements of Canadian Provincial Immigration Acts, and that they have been informed of the religious creed of the child and have undertaken that, if a Protestant, the child shall be placed in a Protestant Home, and, if a Roman Catholic, in a Roman Catholic home; (ii) an undertaking that immediately after a child is placed out the Department of the Interior (iii) a further undertaking in the case of a girl above the age of 12 years that she will be visited (v) a written report, made after examination by one of the Guardians' Medical Officers or by (b) Each child before migrating must have been under instruction for at least six months(i) in a Poor Law school or institution; or (ii) at a public elementary school at the cost of the Guardians; or (iii) in a school certified under the Poor Law (Certified Schools) Act, 1862. (c) Yearly inspections of children sent to Canada are made, until they reach sixteen years of age, by the Immigration Officers of the Dominion Government. The reports of these officers will be communicated to the Oversea Settlement Department and transmitted to the Guardians as received. 5. In the case of the migration of a child without its parents to a Dominion in which provision has not been made for Government inspection of children placed in homes the instructions given in paragraph 4 should be observed as far as they are applicable. 6. Any applications for the recommendation of the Oversea Settlement Committee to expenditure on migration should be submitted in duplicate on the following forms : Form A. 59 for the migration of Poor Law Children to Canada. Form A. 54 for the migration of other Poor Persons. Forms may be obtained from the Oversea Settlement Department. 7. An application for sanction to expenditure for migration should, if possible, be made not less than three weeks before the date proposed for the departure of the intending migrant. 8. The following are the names and addresses of recognised Child Migration Societies in England and Wales referred to in paragraph 4 (a) : : *The address, when a rural area is concerned, must specify the nearest Post Office, the lot, the concession, and the name of the township of residence. FOR OFFICIAL USE. Circular 812. MINISTRY OF HEALTH, Whitehall, S.W. 1. 31st July, 1925. SIR, MILK AND DAIRIES (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1915. I am directed by the Minister of Health to draw the attention of the Council to the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, which will come into operation on the 1st September, 1925. Section 21 (1) of the Act provided that it should come into operation on such date, not being later than the expiration of one year after the termination of the war, as the Local Government Board might by order appoint. Section 1 of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, enacted that the 1915 Act, notwithstanding anything contained therein, should not come into operation before the 1st September, 1925. Although it was the evident intention of the 1922 Act that the 1915 Act should come into operation on the date mentioned, the Minister is advised that it is not certain that this is effected automatically by the Act itself. He has therefore deemed it advisable, in order to remove any possible doubt, to make an Order formally appointing the 1st September, 1925, as the date of commencement of the Act. A copy of this Order, which is entitled the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915 (Commencement of Operation), Order, 1925, is enclosed herewith. The 1915 Act repeals and re-enacts a number of provisions contained in the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts and the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts with regard to Milk and Dairies. It also reproduces a number of amendments and new provisions which were contained in the Milk and Dairies Act, 1914, the operation of which was deferred. Sections 1 and 2 of the 1915 Act include provisions for the making and enforcement of Milk and Dairies Orders, extending the list of purposes for which similar Orders could be made under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878. It is proposed as soon as possible to make an Order under the new powers, but in pursuance of the proviso to Section 21 (3), the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk-shops Orders of 1885, 1886 and 1899, and the Regulations made by Local Authorities under Article 13 of the Order of 1885 will, until altered or revoked, continue in force as if made under the new Act. Sections 3, 4 and 5 and the First Schedule contain provisions similar in effect to those which are contained in a number of Local Acts for stopping the supply of milk which is likely to cause tuberculosis. In the Local Acts the power of stopping the supply is given to the Local Authority for the consuming area and the prohibition only applies to that area. Under the General Act the duty of enforcement is placed on the Council of the County or County Borough in which the cows are kept, and any Order made by them will prohibit the sale of the affected milk in any area. Section 4 requires the Medical Officer of Health of the County or County Borough to make the necessary investigations on receipt of a notice from any other Medical Officer of Health. Section 21 (3) provides that as from the expiration of one year after the commencement of the Act the Local Act provisions shall be repealed. The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has made an Order (the Tuberculosis Order of 1925) providing for the slaughter of bovine animals affected with certain specified forms of tuberculosis and for the payment of compensation in respect of animals so slaughtered. The Order will come into operation on the same day as the Act and it will be the duty of the Local Authority, when in the exercise of their powers under the Act they discover the presence in a herd of an animal to which the Order applies, to cause it to be slaughtered in pursuance of the Order, or if they are not themselves the Authority for the purposes of the Diseases of Animals Acts, to report the matter to that Authority for the appropriate action. Further information as to the Tuberculosis Order is contained in the Circular Letter issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries under the Reference No. T.A. 19848/C.L. Sections 6 and 7 re-enact provisions contained in the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899. Section 8, in conjunction with Section 14, enlarges the power of the Officers of the Local Authority to take samples of milk, and such samples may under the Act be taken at any time before the milk is delivered to the consumer. Except by the direction of the Minister, samples may only be taken in the area for which the Officer acts, but an Authorised Officer of one Authority may by notice require the Medical Officer or other Authorised Officer of another Authority, being a Sale of Food and Drugs Acts Authority, to take samples of milk within the area of his Authority. Where such a notice is given, the Authority whose officer requires samples to be taken will be liable to defray the expenses incurred, and for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts the sample will be deemed to have been taken within the area of the officer giving the notice. Section 9 in conjunction with the Third Schedule amends the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts with regard to the warranty defence. Where such a defence is pleaded by a purveyor of milk a sample from a corresponding milking must be taken in the course of transit or delivery to the purveyor, and if the owner of the cows so requests, a further sample must be taken at the dairy at which the cows are kept. The warranty defence will not be available where the sample in respect of which the proceedings are taken is a mixture of milk obtained from more than one seller or consignor. Power is also given to the Local Authority of the District in which the first sample was taken, instead of or in addition to taking proceedings against the purveyor, to take proceedings against the seller or consignor. Attention may also be drawn to the definition of the expression "dairy" in Section 19 (1) of the Act. It will be observed that the expression does not include a shop from which milk is not supplied otherwise than in the properly closed and unopened receptacles in which it was delivered to the shop. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, R.B. Cross Assistant Secretary. The Town Clerk or The Clerk to the Council. |