The Turn-of the Tide

Feilding Star, 17 November 1891, Page 3

The Turn-of the Tide

The six hundred men who left New Zealand to help the^ustrakan sheepfarmers 1 during "the shearing, troubles ia^ueensland^nd_jNbw South Wale-?, are gradually returning to their homes in jthis, colony. __ These, men^ were not' '"swagsmen," here to-day and gone tomorrow,' but vwere -for- v the most part tbesflonsi of; smalL farmers,,who make shearing a"^ 1 regular business. It was understood when they left for Australia that^they 'would be able to get back to New Zealand in tune for shearing. Their return to these shores during last month jhas- helped, to swell the number of arrivals to the colony, and tcTniak'e'-it appear^th^at tb,e< policy o,f the'Ministry'ls' inducing a turn of the tide?-* A comparison* of > the Tetum of arrivals and.'depaxtures- during last - month, in the light thus thrown upon it| s shows ■xtbrai' the -exodus still continued. /i^ne 1 total number of arrivals ■wasslOsl,ias against 1118 departures. There is nothing to^be suprised >at ( in these figures. ' The Government have done" iheic'best-to block, against our young men every avenue to advance rinent."«lt'is these? men — small capitalists, -and, fcfr~that' matter,- large ones, too — who are leaving us f for fields where thejr> enterprise a^d money -will iidt'^ei regarded/ 1 as a nuisance and a pest. Even a small place like Napier has'losfc many i a. "good man that we could ill afford to spare, but under a polioyftftatV squelches settlement there colony. — Napier Telegraph.