| Description | Contains:
- a letter and telegram from Mr. W.S. Ray, Superintendent at Fairview Home, Halifax to Mr. Plenderleith, Secretary of the Middlemore Homes, regarding the Canadian Government's decision to limit juvenile immigration
- a list of 14 children with notes on whether they are eligible for emigration
- a typed statement showing the cost of maintaining children in Middlemore Homes in Birmingham compared with the cost of making boarding-out payments for them if they are sent to Canada
- a draft letter, handwritten in pencil, enquiring whether a parent would consider the possibility of their child being emigrated to Australia instead of Canada |