IMMIGRATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1269, 26 October 1911, Page 6

IMMIGRATION.

« ■ THE COUNTRY HUNGRY FOR GOOD 311 UN. (Br TeleCTaali.—Press AsEoclatlon.) Christchurch, Oclolxr 23. Dealing with the question of immigration, Mr. A. W. Rutherford, ex-M.P. for Hurunui, who recently returned from a visit to tlio Old Country, told the members of tlio North Canterbury Executive of tho New Zealand Fanners' Union today that the Government, limited the immigration to three months in each year, ami to a certain number. There were large numbers of people in England and Scotland eager to emigrate to tlio colonies. They were welcomed to Canada and so were the capitalists, but capitalists wero not welcomed to New Zealand. The Commonwealth Government, a Labour Government, was encouraging immigration. In 11 r. T. E. Donne, tho country had an excellent man, and an agricultural labourer passed by him was an agricultural labourer, not a Lancashire cotton weaver, as had happened under Mr. W. IVmber Reeves. It had lieen the fault of tho Government, which had stipulated for farm labourers. The country was hungry for good men. If moro use were made of tho immigration facilities there would be more men working on tlio farms, and if that were so thero would be more work for the townspeople. Ho could understand the city people objecting to tlio importation of artisans. Tho country should not be flooded, but moro farm labourers could bo imported, and tho wages question would not lx> affected. There was no doubt that in labour matters tho Labour element dominated the Government, but there should l>e no objection to tho importation of more farm workers in tho summer months. What was the use of advertising tho Dominion so extensively if immigrants were not wanted V