The Daily News. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1911. NEW NEW ZEALANDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 134, 28 November 1911, Page 4

The Daily News. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1911. NEW NEW ZEALANDERS.

It would be difficult to convince a political candidate that a general election was an infinitely less important event than the arrival of a great ship-load of "new New Zealanders" from Britain. There •is no doubt that New Zealand is becoming increasingly popular and that it is attracting men and women with their families at a more rapid rate than for some time. The Rimutaka lately brought several hundreds of people, who were at once absorbed. With the ordinary exceptions, these people represent no problem; they at once create wealth and become a national asset. They are of our own race, with the same ideals, and in leaving Britain they do not in any sense weaken Britain, but rather strengthen the Empire by helping to fill its empty spaces. A great English cartoonist lately drew a picture showing the influx of the alien to Britain and the efflux of Britishers to the colonies, the argument, of course, being that Britain's best bone and sinew was going overseas and the scum of the continent flowing into it; but the truth is that Britain is now loss hospitable to the greasy jumper from other lands and that she can still afford to supply every colony vitii tens of thousands of new people every year. The Corinthic will arrive in Xew Zealand this (week with several more hundreds of new Xew Zealanders. fn our view it docs not matter whether these new Xew Zealanders are domestic servants or farm laborers, the chief point being that the majority are necessarily strong, hearty men and women who will become the fathers and mothers of Xew Zealanders. There are, it is known, many Little Xew Zealanders who look askance at every boat-load of people who come in, but the fact remains that even with the increasing tide of people flowing in there are still too few hands for the great work that is to be done in Xew Zealand. A large proportion of the Corinthic's people are of the farming class, and this is certainly the class we need most. Luring the summer there are to arrive several large batches of new Xew Zealanders, and it can be confidently anticipated that the ' arrivals during 1912 will far exceed the

departures. l)r. Karl Kumm, the famous traveller, who lias been studying the British dominions, told a Wellington interviewer the other day: "Although NewZealand is not so wealthy as the other dominions, its climate makes men." The country tlmt attracts strong men anil women and breeds strong children has no problem that it cannot taekle and solve. At the root of all success, of every reform, of every progressive idea, is physical power. A nation that lias no physical sickness does not fear trouble, and the nation with the largest proportion of normally healthy people is the gieatest nation. Dr. Ivumm made an interesting remark in regard to the Maoris, holding that "they will become in the end a rivulet (lowing into the Anglo-Saxon race." The remark w the more interesting because of the certainty of added vigor by the process of racial intermixture, although not the admixture of a white race with a colored race. It is the constant infusion of new blood that gives the American nation its remarkable verve and "snap," and there are innumerable instances in New Zealand of the inter-marriages of the people of opposite types the product of" which is of higher physical and mental excellence tlvan either parent. Because we recruit from overseas, therefore we must thrive, and the greater the number of recruits the greater the physical, mental and moral progress.