PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9185, 7 September 1908, Page 4

PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS.

The "New Times" remarks: —"lnquiries continue to reach the Labour Department from people in Great Britain who are thinking of immigiating to this country. The last • English mail to hand was no exception to the rule, for it brought quite a number of letters asking fur information as to the prospects of obtaining employment and for advice as to the best way to settle in a new home here. One letter was written on behalf of a family of thirteen. It stated that two of the daughters were thoroughly domesticated, that several of the boys were desirous of obtaining work upon farms, and that the father was a competent bricklayer. A young woman now employed, by a large commercial house in Ireland wrote inquiring as to the demand for proficient stenographers and typistes, while other queries as to the prospects of getting work were received from joiners, dressmakers, ' tailors, and a wickerworker. To all ■

of these'replies will be sent giving the information asked fur. Those writers who seem likely to make good colonists will be encouraged to come, but those who are not apparently suited for life out here, and for whom there can be held out no hope of obtaining work immediately upon . landing in the Dominion, will be advised straight out to stay where they are." The Government should make every effort within their power to induce people with capital to come to this Dominion, but there is little use in increasing the number of workers, seeing that at the present time there is not sufficient employment for all the workers in the country. Unfortunately, however, capitalists, who would be employers of labour, are not likely to come to Now Zealand, as the Government has mnde the place very uncomfortable -to put it mildly—for employers. The great legacy of the Seddon Government is pot half appreciated yet.