UP TO THE AVERAGE.
Sir,—Mr.' -Danby, Chief, Immigration. Officer of Wellington, must' often ,bo at . his wit's ends to classify tho futility of immigrants that are. flocking- to "God's Own Country." His (Mr. Danby's)-latest phrase is "up to the average," per s.s. Tainui. I .do not preUnd to know on what linos Air. Danby works out his average in the. matter, of _ immigrants,; but this I do know: tho new arrivals who filter down Hawke's Bay way are on the average nothing more-:or' less than-wasters, who aro neither willing nor able to work. As for the so-called farm labouters,- they are a delusion.-'- Their kilowledso ..of farming niust have, been learned in tho High Commissioner's office in London previous','to .leaving for the Dominion.- ~lt seems to me : that. the .New Zealand Government are recruiting in the; slums' of Great .Britain to populate this Dominion.—l am, etc.," I■' . . HIRAM DALY, |; Hastings. '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 637, 14 October 1909, Page 3
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