TO DISCOURAGE IMMIGRANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1920, Page 5

TO DISCOURAGE IMMIGRANTS.

DRASTIC SCHEME PROPOSED. WARNING NOT TO COME. Bj Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Wellington, Last Night. An intention to do something drastic in regard to immigration, seems to have been formed by the executive of the New Zealand Ratepayers' Protection Association. Mr. Sproule (president) announced to a.general meeting to-night that the executive was having a report prepared dealing with the housing conditions as the association knew them. The names of fifty or mot? of the leading papers In Britain had been listed, and it was proposed to send those journals copies of the completed and verified report, so that people at Home might know how things stood. Moreover, some of the immigrants who had lately landed in New Zealand had furnished the association with a list of their friends in Britain, and the association intended to write to the friends in question "f.o that Home people, instead of being misled by promises and inducements held out to them by the New Zealand Government, ; might know the real conditions." Mr. Sproule added the following observations: "If they come out against our advice, though we are sorry for them, they must take the> consequences. We are going to do our share to see that in future these people are not taken down as we believe they are being taken down at the present time."