IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2224, 23 June 1870, Page 2

IMMIGRATION.

To (he Editor of the Evcnhxj Stitr. Sir, -—Will you allow me a small space iu your valuable paper. It is not often that 1 meddle in Government affairs, but about immigration I think it time some steps were taken to stop it, if possible, unless Government will guarantee to rind employment for them on arrival. But bafore that let them give work to the many men out of work, standing about with hands in their pockets, nothing to do, and littlo to eat. I will just state one case out of many : a man, wife, and family arrived out here a few months ago ; he has not been able to gob a day’s work at his trade since he landed, but has to break stones on the road. He earns the noble sum of 4s 6d per day, when the weather permits him to work; what is that to support a wife and family, pay rent, firing, Ac. Mind, this is only one out of many. The farmers say there arc not sufficient bunds ; they do not care what becomes of them when their • harvest is in. Also the squatters

after their sheep are shorn, and yet these are the very men who want immigration. If we must have immigration let Government sell laud cheap, and give time to pay ; also find them ploughs, horses, &c., and hold security for the same on their improved land, stock, &c., with a friend or two guaranteeing payment, and let them pay for them within a limited time; then I would encourage immigration. If Government will not help the poor creatures some way 1 would than say everybody ought to write horns to their friends and stop them from coming out here, also tell them to publish it far and wide. But tell the truth and nothing but the truth. I do not write the above as a sufferer being in easy circumstance, having by the blessing of Providence enough to live on without work, at the same time I am not one to, screw down a fellow man ; I say live and let live. I remain, &c., 5 Sympathiser. Dunedin, June 22, 1870.