CORRESPONDENCE. IMMIGRATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1922, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

IMMIGRATION.

(To the Editor.) —I see by this morning’s paper that, we are to receive in this country another 3000 immigrants within the next ten weeks, work and houses guaranteed. Why not put an advertisement m the paper as follows“ Wanted, three thousand men or men of the nine days’ wonder to proceed to England, assisted passage, and work and houses guaranteed.” I ani sure you would get plenty of applications. I would make one, as I think I am as good as any of them that come out here. I am a returned man, and I am a qualified mechanic, but that does not help me in this country. I think it would be a good idea for all unemployed returned men to work a passage or stow away to England, then get emigrated out to New Zealand. Good idea, isn’t -it? They would be sure of a bed and a good “binder.” That is more than I can say, and also a good many more. I am writing this to pass the dinner hour away, as I. feel fit, having had one meal in two days. Not bad going for a east off, is .it ? I have met men in New Plymouth who have walked miles looking for work. This is the funny part: they are mostly returned men. Can you or any Government head (or sure money man, I should say) tell me the reason ? Don’t you think it would be a good plan for the Government if they were to deport all returned sol‘diers from this country and import strangers? Returned soldiers know too much, and they are in the way here. During the war promises were flying from all quarters like shrapnel, but there is an okl saying that a promise is like jl hard-baked pie crust, easily broken. I am only one of hundreds that have been living on promises and lumps of expectations—a very wholesome dish, cooked the proper way. I propose- another £5,000,000 loan, but to do good this time and help the men that fought for them, married men first. I am single, thank God, but cannot get work.—l am, etc..

ERIC LITTLE. New Plymouth, Jan. 11, 1921.