THE SORT OF MAN NEW ZEALAND WANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 11 May 1907, Page 4

THE SORT OF MAN NEW ZEALAND WANTS.

The man who understands farming is the most welcome, says a writer : n •'Macmilians."

•Jn Xew Zealand, as in England there is work for all those who will go oui on the laud to .seek it. "It cannot he too widely known that there is no demand ill New Zealand for immigrant townsmen. A few skilled artisans and mechanics find town work, though not at all times or easily; ami generally speaking, the man and woman who can and will do rough manual labor finds some son of employment everywhere, and as there is a minimum wane, below which no person may be legally employed, any kind of regular work means a nminlennnce. But for clerks and the like there is no opening. 'it is irne that many of the big olliccs iniporl men and it is even surprising to see in Xew Zealand so many Englishmen, who have eome oiv. to fill good posts which, one would have thought, the N'ew Zcalanders would have themselves tried to till; but these are men selected fir special capacity, imported to do special work, and they have nothing in common with tile young man who arrives uiiheraldcil, with while, hands, a l.Uick coat, and no particular nualilicntioiiK.

"\vnat Xew Zealand wants is ihe country-bred man in (he prime of life, who understands agriculture or has a trade and is willing steadily to pursue it, or has saved or inherited capital. For him, with a capital of not les ih'in USO, New Zealand is willing to pay £lO on the passage money. It is ' little enough. Such a man costs and is worth a good deal more than £l9 to the country that reared him."