Land for the Soldier

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 January 1916, Page 2

Land for the Soldier

Sir liider Haggard's mission to tlie oversea dominions in the interest ol settling soldiers on land .in Die newer countries is not regarded from precisely the same point ol view by all wrueis in tlie Old <J-uuntry. liie "Broad Arrow," tor example, lias some thing to say in a critcal vein on the general .attitude or the colonies towards the newcomer from the parent land "" It declares that the treatment oi the poorer type ol British immigrants into Australasia iias not been such as to have produced any keen desire lor emigration to that part of the world -among any of Britain's working ein'sses or late years. "Of the Australasian patriotism and devotion to the Empire we have spoken again and again in terms of warm admiration," says the magazine, "but the present rulers of the Antipodes have not been zealous recruiters of settlers iu recent times. Australasia for Australasians is undoubtedly their policy. In any case when the war is over the question of what is to become of those who have served us to we'll will require all our wits. Let there be no rash haste about this matter of how to deal with discharged soldiers. it is part of the Imperial settlement of the migration question, which has become an Imperial chaos under the Manchester school; and it our country is 'to tje a breeding ground of the race of military men' on which Lord Bacon insisted in the days of Queen Elizabeth, the encouragement of farming. agriculture, and agriculturists must begin at home.