AUSTRALIANS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 251, 16 October 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIANS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

A PECULIAR JftEyUJfiSX j Mv]bourne, U-ijbcr ' A deputation of mwiM.-jo I »igj,cd Mr. Fisiier, the i-'edorul lelor Lcm'jl']. to ascertain if the C'oinm i • ea!'ii vcrmnem would c<»;ilri!>j v .. i: M . money of a niiinb r uI line t > ,>vi t New Zealand. it w«s h'i.u li.c New Zealand representative iu Melbourne had promised to inquire if work could be found for liiem ill New Zealand. Mr. Mer, in promising to ascertain the views of tile (.lOvermnent. said ; such a request was a serious commcntI ary 021 the position of ail'airs in tl-je | Commonwealth.

LABOR. DEPARTMENT'S OPINION. A SYSTEM OK .SELECTION WANTED. By Telegraph.—Pres3 Association. Wellington, Last Night. In reference to to-day's cablegram trom .Melbourne regarding the unemployed. the Labor Department's opinion is that unless a selection of men could be made on the spot, it would be inadvisable lor men to cione hero from oversea. Ihe avenue ol employment in < which there i> a brisk demand is that of agricultural labor, but it is of no u>e to send men to this work who are not accustomed to it or fitted for it. Invercargill and Dunedin are especially needful of good farm laborers, and Canterbury has a good capacity for them; so, too, have the Taranaki'aud Wangalini districts in the North MamL though there is not much demand for them at present in the llawke's Bay and Wairarapa districts. In Auckland district the demand exceeds Ihe supply, fn the chief centres of population the Covernment oilers employment on co-operative railway and road works, preference being given, of course, to married men possessing knowledge of the work. Throughout tlie Dominion, with the exception of a very few centres, the supply of laborers the demand, but there is always employment for the man who can adapt himself to general farm work. New Zealand, it was explained, had gained a good many irom Australia of late, and most of them were doing well. A number had come here lately in readiness for the New Zealand shearing. They followed ' that U]t, then did some work at slaugli- ( tering, and eventually returned to An* , fralia to follow .shearing there until the New Zealand season came on onci ' more; but the policy of indiscriminate J immigration was not good. What was wanted, if an unemployed class was tc ' W dealt with, was a system of selection