CHOICE IMMIGRANTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9033, 21 January 1908, Page 4

CHOICE IMMIGRANTS.

However unsatisfactory it may be to the authorities at Home to note the steady exodus of the vigorous population of the country districts of England to the lands of hope beyond the Mother Land, it must be gratifying to the several States of Australasia to know that they-are receiving a not inconisderable percentage of tho'.e yeomen "whose limbs were'fet in British soil," and who are likely to become useful and prosperous settlers in Australia and New Zealand. At the present time there is visiting this dominion a politician from .Yorkshire —Mr Richard Garnett—who has been congratulating the colonies upon their new accessions, while deploring the lofs occasioned to Great Britain; thereby. While England is opening her arms to foreign human wretchedness her oest people are,, according- to Mr Garnett, emigrating to "fresh woods and pastures new." On the steamer on. which he came to New Zealand, he said, he found a couple of hundred smart, and, nappy young men up to forty years- of age r on the way to thiis dominion, and he had sir.ee noticed that other vessels-had brought out hundreds more of the same type. '•'l was talking to two clergymen fronai coumtoy parishes- in England," said the visitor to a press representative, "who told me that this;process of depopulation was going on all over the country,, one saying that in some parts none but old people and children were left. The others were fleeing from Home as if from the plague."' :