TOO MANY “DUDS.”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4984, 7 June 1926, Page 2

TOO MANY “DUDS.”

THE DOMINIONS IMMIGRANTS. THE SORT WE CAN DO WITH. “We want immigrants, but there, are •tar too ma.ny ‘duds.’ What New Zealand wants is skilled artisans and trained farm hands, more people for the count,ry districts and fewer for the cities.” In these words Mr R. H. Nimmo, at the. annua,l meeting of the Caledonian Society at Wellington last week, sized up New Zealand’s immigration requirements. He said that jvhijs.t the society recognised the desirability of pursuing a vigorous immigration policy, it denounced the tendency on the part of some New Zealanders to nominate migrants whose training did not fit them to undertake skilled work and whose desire was to settle in the cities. There was no great prospect, of unskilled labourers bettering themselves by journeying to New Zealand, and therefore the society thought that only skilled tradsanen and 'farm workers should be nominated. “It is hoped,” he concluded, “that we will not get so many ‘dud’ immigrants in future.”