IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 3

IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES.

Sir,—l am sure that "every' New Zealander who has the interests of liis country at heart will , agree with llr. Tcwsley that wo aro not doing enough to attract emigrants to' this be'autitul Uominion, where everyone has a ehanco (of starving). I would suggest that the Government employ lecturers to go Home and tell the people about tho hundreds of poor deluded follows who are carrying. their swag -from one end of this country to tho other in a vain search for employment; hawking their labour by day to a lot of unresponsive mutton Kings, and crawling into some filthy hovel called ' a swagger's whare. at . night, iosters could also - be printed • showing file advantages of the Dominion; for instance, the great Wellington "sweep that took place in the basement of tho Town nail a couple of years ago, when tho. prize was a pick and shovel and a week's work. Another good subject: "A casual in the Ohiro Ward," with a smile of happiness and contentment on his face, receiving his bread and dripping from the 'Benevolent Trustees." Another, a New Zealand cockic with an assumed smile 011 his face, (laying one of Sedgewick's boys his halt-crown a week (inset the section lie is going to buy with it when he's "growed up"). Oils'could go on multiplying subjects for ever, but' I tlunk a group of statuary, depicting i r 01 and the council trying to (tonne what is a living wage, would l>a too good a subject to be missed. It could be easily explained that' the fare to Sydney is only XI, and that hundreds ,ol emigrants, who have cjme to New Zealand in the first place to make a home for themselves, are leaving for Australia as fast as the ships can carry them.. In view of the present overcrowded state of the labour market in New Zealand it is amusing to listen to the talk of men like Mr. Tewsley. They can only be likened to an ostrich with its head in the sand, who cannot or will not see anything, and' vainly imagine everyone else'to be like themselves.—l am, etc., j jfosuji.