FOREIGNERS IN CANADA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 601, 1 March 1929, Page 16

FOREIGNERS IN CANADA

MR. JORDAN’S IMPRESSIONS WELCOMED AT ELLERSLIE An enthusiastic welcome home was accorded Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P. for Manukau, in the Ellerslie picture theatre last evening. Speaking of his impressions of Canade, Mr. Jordan said that in Toronto a huge exhibition was held annually and attracted visitors from all parts of the world. The profits were taken by the municipality, which in one year reaped a harvest of £ 300,000. He travelled over the immense prairies of Canada for nearly two days and nights, and saw nothing but wheat, a crop which was estimated at upwards of 500,000,000 bushels. Immigration into Canada was going up by leaps iyid bounds, principally from Eastern European countries. In 192 8 the returns showed that the foreign influx into the country equalled that of the British and American put together. Of 19 pupils in a small school he visited, only two could speak English. Referring to his visit to England, he said that although New Zealand products were always highly spoken of, only a comparatively few people could afford to buy them, either because low wages or no wages at all. At the same time Britain was lull of foreign goods which came in practically free of duty. In some centres the Government had erected social halls where the unemployed were entertained by means of physical exercises and other forms of amusement to while away the time.

On the motion of Mr. A. Hewson, chairman of the Ellerslie Town Board, a vote of thanks was accorded Mr. Jordan, who promised to deliver a political address before next session of Parlianaent;