THE IDEAL IMMIGRANT.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1921, Page 5

THE IDEAL IMMIGRANT.

YOUNG MEN FOR FARMS. LORD NORTHCLIFFE’S CONCLUSION, By Telegraph.- Pre« Association Auckland, Last Night. Speaking of immigration, in an interview, Lord Northcliffe said that this was a subject which occupied a good deal of attention in the Motherland. “I have come to the definite conclusion, which I have confirmed by inquiries from many sources,” be said, “that the kind of immigrant from Britain most likely to succeed at present in the part of New Zealand I have seen is the young man from a British farm, skilled in the management of stock and cow-keeping, who is willing to work as hard as he does at Home as share-milker, and in a year or two he ought to get to know New Zealand ways and at least have his keep. We have many such young men with capital to invest, but I have met young men from Home who have succeeded without capital. We have nothing like your mortgage system, which, with all its faults, enables men who nevex would have owned a yard of land in the Old Country to become land-owners.” The Ruakura State experimental farm he describes as an ideal piece of organimtjqn. He was acquainted with experimental farms both in Britain and Canada, but he had never expected to find in New Zealand a farm of such dimensions. The propagation of native trees on the farm interested him immensely.