The Daily News SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13. EMIGRANTS AND ADVERTISEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81864, 13 October 1906, Page 2

The Daily News SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13. EMIGRANTS AND ADVERTISEMENTS.

The cabled item setting out that the High Commissioner in London does not intend to send any more assisted emigrants to this country, unless the said emigrants have "a certain sum ui money'' is very interesting. A news item appeared in the papers of the capital tne other day setting forth the fact that a certain "assisted emigrant" had been having a very bad time although he had only been in the country a few weeks. Anyhow the man and his family are a charge on the charities of the country. It is obvious that the High Commissioner's decision not to allow any people to come to New Zealand unless they have mortfy is the result of the cases in which it has been shown that persons arriving in this country have become indigent in a few weeks. It is also obvious that the authorities have been unnecessarily cruel in the conduct of this assisted emigration business.

I?' it is necessary now to prevent people without capital from coming t j New Zealand it was necessary thiee months ago. The authorities in charge of the London office, induce people to leave the old country Ly setting forth in the most glowing terms the advantages that are to be gained in New Zealand. The o,d Country worker, who has perhaps taken years to save up the necessary cash to start a new life in the colony, spends his all on the representation of those authorities. The authorities have not been telling them that they need capital to keep them from starving, but the authorities have b'en telling them that there is work for anyone and everybody in "God's Own Countiy." If there is work for everyone, why is it necessary for any person who lands here to have money ? The person whom the assisted emigration scheme was intended to benefit are the people who have no capital but their labour, and the r.ow regulation of cuurse keeps this class at Home. By the way, one nevev hears of an indigent Chinaman. Although he is of the lowest working coolie class he has paid for him the sum of one hundred pounds before he is admitted to the countiy. II" does not roll up to the labour office and in the very fewest cases has lie applied to the charitba'e institutions of the country. The Chinaman who comes here has 110 capital of his own. Mis poll-tax is paid by the wealthy Chinese trad'-r. Why is the British working man expected to have capital when any coolie from any part of Asia may be absorbed into our population 011 having not a single cent?

Tun British labourer ha< been nduccd by specious advertisements in the Home press to come to this country to do work that colonials won't tackle. The imported man is not s.) good a man as the colonial man, because he does not know the country, and lie is dumped by a Department that ought to know better into a forsaken place that has been worked in the winter by newchums, apparently because colonials couldn't make wages at it. ll is high time the authorities representing New Zealand at Home (juit getting people to this countt'r by false pretences. It is aiso high lime "assisted" emigration w as stopped, seeing that if a man has ■'a certain amount of money" hu does not need assistance. It is the man who has nothing, and who under better conditions than those existing at Home might make a good colonist who should be the recipient of the benefit if the benefit is extended .purely out of brotherly consideration. The emigrant doesn't care whether he is sent to a countiy that doesn't treat him properly by an Agent General or a Plenipotentiary Extraordinary. The Plenipotentiary doesn't do„say-s'iHTving, nor does he fyjk-utif for benevolent funds.