Not Yet Ready

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 10, 27 January 1937, Page 5

Not Yet Ready

-Press ijuooiation.)'

N.Z. & IMMIGRATION "Lot of Shaping to be Done,^ Says Mr Savage LIVELIHOOD GUAR ANTEE # "

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Nlghk "I would say the secretary of State "for the DomMions, Mc Maleolm MacDonald, la just about right in saying New Zealand is not yet ready to welcome assisted migrants," said the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, in conunenting on the cabled report of J iix Mao Donald's speech to tha* effect on the Empire Settlement Bill in thd House of Commons. "We must first prepare the way fepe immigrants," continued Mr Sftvag* "There is a lot of shaping to be dono before we can bring additional people into New Zealand. The Govermneat has always said its job ii to prnpije the way for suecessful migration New Zealand. It would be nnpardoe* ably foolish to bring thonsande «£ migrants to this Dominiou if we are not in a position to guarantee them a means of livelihood. Work must flrat be available for alL '"The real and secret success in t» mjgration is to make the country tn prosperous that the people .want to come to it in order to share in its ptoeperity. When eonditions are right in New Zealand, people will not- hesitate to eome and bring new capital with! them whether the sum be large or " What's the use of putting moninR on the estimates every year to bring assisted migrants here if we have mpt provided facilities for them to earn a living in reasohably comfortable eonditions? We must look at the problem from the common sense point of view. "Meanwhile the policy and task of this Government is to make New "Zealand prosperous enough aud solid enough to attract migrants." - Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Maleolm MacDonalif, British Scorelary for Dominion Affairs, said that Can ada and New Zealand were not yet ready to welcome assisted migrants* Replies to a Commonwealth memoram dum on this subject to six State Qoveroments were, in the case of four, negative, but Queensland and South Australia replied expressing a view that ig those States there was roojn for resumption in limited numbers of certain types of migrants.