Off to Australia in the SS Ormonde, the first liner - troopship to be reserved exclusively for Australia - bound migrants, traffic, are 40 boys and girls from the Dr Barnardo's Garden City, Woodford Bridge, Essex. The party of 20 boys and 20 girls, is the first to leave England for a new life. "Down under" since before the war. The boys are to go to a farming school in New South Wales, the girls to a domestic service training home near Sydney. Should any wish to work in other spheres, opportunity will be provided. Picture shows: Mr Norman Mighell, CBE, Deputy High Commissioner for Australia, explains the route to Australia to some of the child immigrants at the Dr Barnardo's Garden City, Woodford Bridge, Essex 6 October 1947