EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1076, 8 December 1882, Page 4

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

“ A. H. M ” writes to Land and Water ns follows: —“The emigration to Canada, so long continued, has at length awakened the New Zealand Government from itsapathy, and out of a' loan of three millions the Colony has just obtained, the sum < f £200,000 is to he applied to the purposes of immigration. When assisted passages were previously given to emigrants, farmers and labourers plainly showed the preference for the salubrious climate of the South to the six months’ winter of the North in America ; and it is i ow discovered that to c mplete the 'ong list of public works and railways in the Colony that more labourers and farmers are needed. It is said that the last free emigration system failed to bring to the colony a useful agricultural population, but rather a mixed class, who have not added much to the Colony’s welfare. This is doubtful. T!ut it is quite certain that New Zealand wants what every other Colony would like to get, and that is. practical farmers with large families and large capital; and in order to secme something of this description, inducements must ho hold out to those who have these qualifications, and who would doubtless prefer an English climate (not much finer) to ane Arctic one. Another inducement is the high rate of wages generally riding in this Colony ; and the '.’cry tact of Government aid being again offered to intending emigrants from this country is a proof that there is move work than labourers, and consequently good wages must ruin, •Oobden said ‘that when two masters run after one workman waves vise; but when two seek one master, they fall ’ This state of things exists in Canada, lUN unfortunately, the snow-covered lands for so many months must be a great bar to the labourer earning con tinuous wages. Large tracts of land have been purchased and cat up into farms, which have done much to populate and ■cultivate this beautitul country. In New Zealand, especially in the North Island, the nnm 1 er of small rivers that intersect the country,the splendid pastures that are produced in the ' urnt hush land, and the nahiral phenomenon of the hot. springs, will lie a very strong incentive when the new Government plans are better known to intending emigrants. No d'onglPs as in Australia, ever occur ; no winter, as in Canada, but a soft breeze, I .lowing o\er the island from the Pacific, makes the climate one of the healthiest an the world. The past, winter in the North Island resembl'd an English autumn ; bullocks and were out the whole time, and required neither feeding nor housing —a striking con-, traat to what is scon in Canada, who e ■cattle have to bn fed and housed for five months, and then lose much of the flesh they had on them before being 'boxed up for the winter.”