CANADA AS IT IS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 112, 9 June 1909, Page 4

CANADA AS IT IS.

Among tile arrivals from oversea bv tin l Wimnreria last Sunday week wa* Mr. Vivian Sbaw, a gentleman -wbo lias lor tfie ]>ast six years been cut tiernnching at Calgary, Alberta, in ilte Dominion of Camuki, but who, hearing in tliat g?ej|t iru |uogressive land of >inn\>' of the pleasnntness of lil'i* in faraway New Zealand, and dissatisfied with tin* |>rese?jt of jiffairs in the once yreat cattle lauds of the "White owing to their struggling tr.in> : ..(u from wide ranches to mixed farming sections, decided to cast the dice again -and over here. "The fprospeets in Canada just.now are not so good a*' are represented to intended settlers.'' he 'to an Auckland Star reporter. ''TJiey give you the idea al Home that you have only got to get there and every tiling is ready to start taking crops out of the land"—a remark that inadvertently -brought t<'mind some of the accusations that have been levelled agninsi. the 'enthusiasm of New Zealand's agents; and 'Mr. ,Shaw's next remark al>'o suyijerttcd r'eniinisccntly epithets 'bo-towed on our Coverninent'ts iinmigration policy ihy trades councils and others. 'The fact is, Ihev have been too itidiserimiuate oyer there hi (.heir immigration policy. Their one ide.-( has been to «ret immigrants, and they have adverlisi'd and iuvfted and olfere'd | all Mirts of inducements with this end in view."'