NEEDY IMMIGRANTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 209, 29 May 1920, Page 8

NEEDY IMMIGRANTS

A DIFFICULT TOSITION • SUGGESTIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT "Thero has been a great increase in claims received from Imperial soldieis and their dependants, many of whom arrive in New Zealand with exhausted financial resources," stated thvx Applications Committee in a report presented to the executive of the Wellmetoii War lielief Association yosterday. I here are four sources whereby theso men arc being assisted to New Zealand, and apparcntlv there is no co-operation between them. Your committee has requested bir James Allen to endeavour to arrange that theso people shall bo sent through the Overseas Settlement Committee; also to ascertain whether a sum ot money should be sent to New Zealand for the, 'benefit of Imperial soldiers and their dependants I who may need assistance, to bo administered either by the Immigration Department or by this committee did not consider that war funds raised for the use of New Zealand , soldiers should be expended on people -•enV to New Zealand from Britain and it sn""csted that no immigrant should bo dispatched to New Zealand without the approval of tho High Commissioner. Tib'chairman of tlio executive (Mi. L. 0 II Tripp) said that the question renuired attention, lie considered that the Government, through the Immigration Dmrtment should look after the people who were brought to the Dominion under immigration schemes. The associai i on at nre=ent was being asked to provide ao sistance for some of three people, and the Sal and Charitable Aid 1 tonrd was also being burdened. Some of the immiirriTits were m ill-health, and siiouki never lmve been allowed to come to New Hild as settlers. They required ask - ance innnediately after their arrna . M-urv of the immigrants were M>rj desu •1,10 hitlers, but they all needed more attention after arrival than fration Department was giving tliem. "Mr Tripp mentioned t } , ® ] oa3C -. ot I <l w^S* „ Li 'ii vmirs who had arrived with FX ™" toc&fcteigrn i§S?*33E«f3S U.at t they «ro not woAniE ZeakiiTsluiiild be^npproved^ SratteTVuiel™ Cdtt f dfto U»3 Govornment on tlio subject.