Immigrants Fall For Open Country
BUT CAN’T GET IT MR. W. J. JORDAN’S DEFENCE “The .allegation that immigrants are ‘town hangers’ is incorrect,” said Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P., at a Labour meeting last night. “If the immigrants desired such a life,” he said, “they would never have left the larger towns in Britain. “The vast majority emigrated because they thought New Zealand possessed easy and cheap facilities for the acquisition of land, but once here they quickly become disillusioned.” The speaker quoted English figures to show ‘.hat land agregation was happening there, and a further batch revealed showed that New Zealand was emulating the Motherland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 9
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106Immigrants Fall For Open Country Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 9
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