COMPETITION FOR BRITISH IMMIGRANTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43102, 8 June 1907, Page 4

COMPETITION FOR BRITISH IMMIGRANTS.

Ai London correspondent throws some light on the efforts that are being made by different colonies to induce British people to emigrate to each country. Canada, New Zealand and the various States of the Commonwealth) are all advertising their charms in the Old Country, and offering the Home-dwellers the chance to begin a new life in a newer Britain overseas. Canada plays the leading part in this great bid for population, and so successful have been her agents that some parts of Great Britain are already feeling the results of the exodus produced. 'An officer in one of the shipping companies, who has just returned to London from a holiday in the North of Scotland, states that villages there are actually being depopulated by thie rush of emigrants for Canada. The villagers are going off in 'batches to r tort life afresh across the Atlantic ‘ The same phenomenon is to- be seen in the West of England, and particularly in 'Devonshire. The Canadian) Government have an emigration office at Exeter, are boohing the Devon farm hands for Canada in batches of twenty or thirty per week. At the present rate of emigration it is only a matter of time when there “will be no agricultural labourers left- in England.