AS OTHERS SEE US.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 24, 22 February 1909, Page 4

AS OTHERS SEE US.

j mouk 'people wanted. "Believe me, 1 am glad thut J have seen such a, place. 1 can only say that it is a place where everybody must be happy." This remark was made by Dr. Inner. Herman Consul for Australasia to a Times representative last Friday. The doctor was referring to the Dominion- and the impressions donned by he has so far visited. Dr. Inner has for two years been in Sydney, has never previously been in 'New Zealand, and cam« across for the '.express purpose of inspecting the Dominion.

Chatting in a conversational manner, he said he had been nearly all over the ; wor!d, and he had rarely seen such a beautiful country as New Zealand, "such a healthy, such a beautiful climate/' to use his own words. The Wanganui river strongly appealed to him. lie had never seen such vegetation. It was niaguilicent to, see the northern trees and the trees of the south growing together. He had been four years Governor of the German Islands, and knew the tropical countries very well. "lhit you have not the inhabitants/'' he emphatically remarked. "You must have more inhabitants. Immigration! This is the iirst kuv. Immigration and always .immigration,'and the best immigrants yon can lind. Not the bad, the undesirable people from other countries, but the real men who,, not finding loom enough in the Fatherland, desire to look out a home iu a. new country. Aud you can have the best people if you like. .The country is very rich, not, perhaps, jjo rich Queensland or South Australia, 'but it is a. very rich land. It is a pity that the Maoris- do not work enough. The laud is not cultivated." Have you any intention with respect to im'migration from Germany to New Zealand?

•\Xo," li ( ; remarked. ''We want our ■people. AYe do not like them to g" away. But they may do *o if they wishj and after I have seen the country | J shall be in a position to advise them. You ca.nuot build up .important industries here, however, to compete with Europe. You are so small and the salaries arc so high that your industries cannot compete aga.irist those outside. Wc in iGcrmany are very fond of a good ■life for the laborers, 'but/' he .remarked with a shrug of his shoulders, "-what is too. high is- too high. The indus'tiies cannot pay Ss a day for these men. •\[ believe the best is always obtained by imlmigvation. Immigration is the lir'st law, Such a climate I have never semi—not too hot or too cold. If we had such a« climate in Europe, oh—.'' Jlp conveyed his meaning by a fla*h of j the eye and gesture. Dr.* frmer, speaking of Uotorua. said j tlu\ springs there reminded him very much of those at Honolulu, lie u J as astonished at the beauty of the coun- s try. "Wellington, to his mind, was a« s beautiful a : s Genoa, Yokohama, or Hong Kong. The view over the harbor from 1 the hills loo'ked very much like Genoa. ;l It was one of the nicest cities he had |j ever seen, ,