UNHAPPY IMMIGRANTS
SOME STARTLING STATEMENTS. “LEAVING COUNTRY IN SHOALS.” SPREADING A TALE OF WOE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. To the New Zealand Farmers’ Union conference to-day. Mr. A. Spencer, president of the New Zealand Immigration and Land Settlement League, said that immigrants were leaving the country in shoals and returning to England. The third-class accommodation was booked for months ahead, and steamers were leaving full. Our taxation was the highest per head in the world, and more population was imperative. These people were carrying a tale of woe throughout the United Kingdom, and this was fatal to the colony. Mr. Massey had said that 10,000 immigrants had been absorbed into the population, but the speaker would defy him or anyone else to prove that. This was a crying shame. The country had no land policy at all, and they must get 'W> work at once under the Imperial Government Settlement Act. They had a golden opportunity which, he urged, “i they should not miss. Under this the Imperial Government paid half the cost of settlement. The matter was of the utmost urgency ahd importance.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1922, Page 4
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186UNHAPPY IMMIGRANTS Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1922, Page 4
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