NOMINATED IMMIGRATION.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1529, 28 November 1873, Page 32

NOMINATED IMMIGRATION.

The Wauganui Evening Herald, 18tli November, writes as follows: The Government have wisely revised the regulations affecting immigrants nominated by their friends in the Colony. There was no good reason why this class should have been required to pay, while those selected promiscuously by agents at home, were brought out free. Every person in the colony who nominates some one at home is an unpaid agent, while there is a guarantee of the immigrant being of a superior class. For nothing is more improbable than that a person in the Colony is going to bring from England an acquaintance of doubtful character, or without qualifications for taking his part as a colonist. To relax the jsystem of nomination so as to give immigrants of this class free passages was a judicious act, likely *to accelerate the stream of immigration to the Colony. "We notice that the Government also have consented to pay the passages of immigrants from their residences to the port of erabarkation. They might also judiciously consent to pay their passages from the port of landing to the part of the Colony where their friends reside. Promissory notes are no longer required. ' These vexatious instruments being done away with, the working class will at once see their way to get their friends out from home free of all expense to themselves. Employers of labor can easily cause the supply to meet the demand. Nomination, when freed from charges which bore with some hardship from their inconsistency, is a system destined to grow into importance, and may ultimately, perhaps, supersede the necessity of employing lecturers and special agents in Great Britain. The influx of immigrants into the United States was created and sustained priucicipally by a voluntary nomination, accompanied in the majority of instances hy remittances to enable the emigrant to leave his native country. This was more notably the case with respect to the Irish. But the circumstances in this Colony being different with regard to distance and cost of passage, the Government are compelled to step in and provide means of free immigration. If the nominated plan should generally prevail, —and we do not see why it should not, —the Government will hardly find it necessary to fit up immigration barracks, as the supply of labor on its arrival will be absorbed, and even if the immigrant 3hould not find immediate employment, he will have friends upon his arrival ready to give him a helping hand. The nomination system specially recommends itself to Wanganui and other outlying districts, which have to wait upon the convenience of the Provincial centres.