IMMIGRATION POLICY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1920, Page 12

IMMIGRATION POLICY.

s GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS. jj ] c THREE CLASSES OF PASSAGES. ( Details of the immigration policy to f be adopted by the Government have r been received by the provincial execu- j tive of the Farmers' Union from the chief immigration officer, Mr. H- D. | Thomson. It is stated that the policy , will comprise immigration under three ( headings: Applied-for passages, noma- | ated passages, and the acceptance of ex- t service ruen and women who are granted free passages to the Dominion under the , Imperial oversea settlement scheme. ( Applied-for passages are confined to bona-Me farmers, farm laborers, and domestics resident in the United Kingdom who make application to the High Commissionr for specially reduced rate passages. Upon acceptance by the High Commissioner their names are forwarded to the New Zealand Immigration Department, and provision is made that employment awaits them upon arrival. The rates are as follows:—For domestics, free passages with an allowance for £2 for expenses; for farm laborers and wives, £lO each; farmers and wives, £26 each. Under the scheme of nominated paswos any permanent resident of the Dominion has the right to nominate any person residing in the United Kingdom irrespective of relationship or occupation, provided a warrant is signed guaranteeing that employment will be awaiting the nominee, and that adequate provision will be made for maintenance after arrival in the Dominion. These rates are as follow:—Secondclass, £52: third-class, two bertfts, £2B; third-class, four berths, £2O. In respect to Imperial Government free passages under the Imperial oversea settlement scheme, these are granted only to applicants who arc acceptable to the Government, and are proceeding either to friends or- assured employment. The immigration officer states that m connection with applied passages for farmers and farm laborers the farmers' Union may render somo assistance in placing these immigrants in suitable employment after their arrival in the Dominion. Ho adds that it is not anticipated that shipping space will be 1 available for such persons for some little time, but the executive will be again communicated with in regard to the matter, should its services be required, i to it eyer since.