DISAPPOINTED EMIGRANTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3176, 29 April 1909, Page 4

DISAPPOINTED EMIGRANTS.

The ears of New Zealand should ' surely have tingled considerably of late by reason of the moving stories told concerning the Dominion by emigrants who have returned, deciding that there is no place like Home. The "Bolton Journal" gives prominence to a tale of woe poured forth by a Bolton man who recently went back from New Zealand. The head and front of our offending seems to be that "the information issued by the New Zealand Government to English emißrants is not true." The amount of wages he found to be correctly stated, but there was not enough work to go round. House rent amazed him. He also discovered the interesting fact that, after paying a fancy price for the best qit-.i ty of lamb here, the meat was interior to the frozen produce of New Zealand offered in London. With some justica he contradicted the statement that land suitable for dairy farming could be obtained at £5 per acre.- He found that land available for ordinary farming purpsoes was situated a great many miles away from civilisation, where there were either no roads, or such roads that in one case a horse got so stuck in the mud that "the man had to shoot it and take it away in bits." In other places the land was so fearfully hard that "it could only be broken up by the aid of gunpowder." He had nothing gcod to say of us, this Bolton m°n, and yet he felt that his was the voice crying in the wilderness, for he concluded his jeremiad with, a sad shake of the head, "New Zealand is a bad place to go to, but people seem as if they won't take advice."