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THE BIG BROTHER MOVEMENT.
ITS EXPANSION ADVOCATED.
Svdnev. August 21.
Members of the Bis Brother movement
yesterday tendered Sir George Fairhairn,
the retiring Agent-General for Victoria, &
reception.
In his address. Sir George raid there
was an unlimited fuddIv of the rizllt
young material in Great Britain, consist
ing of yonths between 14 and IS who
came from ideal stock, but whose parents
lacked the means to send them to Aus
tralia, to start life without FOnie form
of assisted migration. Lord Forrter. a
former Governor-General of Australia, an-1
many former State Governors, were on the
committee of the Big Brother movement
in London. The totil expenditure in
curred by it was £1,500 a year, of which
the Commonwealth contributed £750. It
was really a Victorian eommitt*^. and it
would be better if each of the other
States appointed representatives to it,
thus widening the burden and increasing
the scope of its possibilities. Its work
rould easily be trebled without extra es
pennc.
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