RACE PURITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8046, 12 February 1906, Page 2

RACE PURITY.

X'lili I'ItKSS ASSOCIATION. WBI.IIXBTO.V, February 10. Speaking at a social tendc red to 51r Wilford, M.11.K., at tin- Upper Hull, last night, the Premier, referring to immigration, said lie believed there was room in New Zealand for all ivlio might eome, but he made an appeal on beha.il: of those of kindred blood. The time was opportune, he said, to advise his hearers to be Irue lo their own race, whatever might happen. They must look to r.ieial purity, and resist each and every attempt thai might be made in an opposite direction, lor there were those win, for their own interest, weuhl move in that direction. "Let us work out our own destinies." Mr Seddon continued," The people of Xew Zealand can work out their best by being true to the race from which they sprung. Due of your troubles to-day is getting undue competition from lowly wage-paid countries, and eoiiulries within whose boundaries those who toil are lar from being in the same favoured condition in" which you are placed. If is |h:i! keen competition which is h unperiug and injuring many the artisan class in .New Jiealand." Mr Seddon concluded by urging the necessity for keeping our staple imlus. tries free from fraud and malpractice by persons engaged in Ihcui.