ASSISTED EMIGRATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3168, 20 April 1909, Page 4

ASSISTED EMIGRATION.

The continuance of assisted emigration to New Zealand, which Sir Joseph Ward undertook to defend in ansvyer to the unemployed of Auckland., was. in the opinion of the London' "Globe," not difficult to justify. It points out that assisted emigration of free settlers from Great B'i'-ain to the antipodes was introjjeed some 80 years ago, and a few years later it became a part of the regular colonial policy. It was, of course, objected to by the leaders of the Manchester laissez faire school, since it involved an imaginary interference with the sacred laws of supply and demand; it also tended to strengthen the colonies, and to diminish the supply of fluid labour at Homi?—both of which objects were anathema to the free traders of Bright and Cobden's time. "But it is," says the "Globe," "the assisted emigration of selected emigrants from Britain that has made Australia and New Zealand the splendid countries they are; for few men otherwise would have ths money for the long voyage, and both lands were crying out for population. And neither is yet supporting one.tithe of the number of inhabitants which would be easily possible."