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DISSATISFIED IMMIGRANTS. BAD ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE DOMINION. WELLINGTON, July 26. At tli© New Zealand Farmers’ Union Conference to-day, Mr A. Spencer, president of the Nerv Zealand Immigration and Land Settlement League, said that immigrants were leaving the country in shoals and returning to England. Third class accommodation was hooked for months ahead, and steamers were leaving full. Our taxation was the highest oer head in the world, and more population was imperative. These people were carrying a tale of woe throughout the United Kingdom, and this was fatal to tho colony Mr Massey had said that 10,000 immigrants had been absorbed into tho population, hut the speaker would defy him or anyone else to prove that This was a crying shame Tlio country had no land policy at all, and they must get work at once. Under tho Imperial Government’s Settlement Act they had a golden opportunity, which he urged they should not miss. Under this Act the Imperial Government paid half the cost of settlement, and the matter was of the utmost urgency and importance.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1922, Page 1
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