CANADIAN IMMIGRATION.
AN OVER-SUPPLY. Press Association. WELLINGTON, -March 30. The editor of the Toronto Globe, writing to a member of the Auckland Star staff, says: “I rather fancy you do not know the conditions in Canada at the present moment. We have had a huge ivage of immigration that has quite swamped the capacity of the country. It will take some time t 0 absorb the half million we have received within the last two years. The .bulk of these people are English, and quite too many of them, I am sorry to say, are from East London. Our readers are giving diiliners ovoiy day to something dike 3700 recently arrived immigrants, funds of almost £IOOO having been provided by our readers for that purpose,’’
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2153, 31 March 1908, Page 2
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125CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2153, 31 March 1908, Page 2
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