The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-08-30
issued: 1907-09-27
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note: Tsa 8 Pages-Subscribe for Rflp The News, per .month *J\J\J VOL.6 j Prow.rt.i Ute legislative /^s, CT 1.1907 Tfie Daily News Classified Ads. ore Vf nners. Try one, per word Ic trf. NELSON, B. C FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER^ 27, 1907 NO. 136 ARE CHEATED So Allege Deceived British Immigrants PRESIDENT BROOKS AGAIN REVEREND GENTLEMAN APPEARS IN THE SAME ROLE IN MARITIME PROVINCES WHERE A PARTY IS LANDED UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. Of the last batch of Immigrants who arrived ln Nelson under the auspice, of the British Emigration, Tourist and Colonization society of Liverpool, of which Rev. J. L. Brooks Is president, ten In number, all have had work found for them w th the exception of three who will probably fit in somewhere within the next few daya. Not any one of them had made any pur- •chaB- of land, but all had the idea that F. Hammond of this city would find them work Which would enable them to purchase .otne of tlie fruit land wliich he had for sale, Mr. Hnmmond Is Indignant over the matter and does not kno wwhat can be done, _xeept through the publicity of the press. He has cabled to Mr. Brooks and also to the tigont gcnernl ln London Imperatively demanding thnt no more emigrants be sent ■cross. That Rev. J. L. Brooks is conversant with the whole circumstances and li-. no longer acting under any misapprehension Is sufficiently clear through recent correspondence. He writes a letter to one of the emigrants before his departure from England and says be Is "worrying" over their chances of work on their arrival here, as he has sent so many mon over that the company cannot find tbem work in cleuring land on the home ranch but at the same time assures them that he la using every effort to find them employment on their arrival. Mr. Hammond says the only effort Mr. Brooks Is uslngs Is the Ink he Is squandering. Nelson is not the only Bcone of the working of this society wh'ch Is apparently nothing but a booking agenoy collecting their commission from the steamers on which they book passe…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0382624
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : F.J. Deane
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text