SIR JULIUS VOGEL ON IMMIGRATION.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 60, 13 January 1883, Page 3

SIR JULIUS VOGEL ON IMMIGRATION.

- ♦■ Sir Julius Vo.'ol has addressed n letter to the Melbourne Age arlvocafi in£ assisted immigration for Victoria. He says: ''A German savant estimated that the value of eacli adulr emigrant to tlic TTnitrd States was £200. I recollect a discussion of thisestimate at the Statistical -ociery one eveninor. The opinion prevailed that it was not an excessive one. Indeed, who would rear, feed, and educate a human being to twenty-one years of a e for much less ? Can you want a: more profitable business than paying £13 to bring- out what is worth on landing £200. There is a stron-i feeling 1 in this colony in favour of stimulating" manufacturing" industry and production. Whatever diffi'ivnce of opinion there may be as to the mode of doing- this, no one can, I think, fail to see how greatly a country is strengthened by productiveness ot al descriptions. Now, I would a*k you, can you offer any mere efficient aid to manufjicturino' industries than that ot increasing- the circle requiring supplies ? A great deal too much is made of the contiogenc" 0 ' that the i immigrants one colony imports may proceed to another. It is almost us great an undertaking- for an immigrant to seek another colony as for him to leave the old country for the first colon v of his choice."