SETTLERS WANTED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9716, 11 February 1910, Page 5

SETTLERS WANTED.

PROTESTS AGAINST COUNT MOANER'S WARNING. MR WADE SPEAKS. AMPLE WORK FOR SUITABLE MEN. United' Press Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received February, 10, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, February 10. The State Premier, Mr Wade, has made a statement in regard to the notices published in the Swedish newspapers, on the authority of Count Morner, Swedish Counsul General at Sydney, warning intending emigrants against proceeding to Australia and New Zealand, on| account of the difficulty of obtaining employment. Mr Wade says h n is much surprised at the statement, as reference to the Immigration Bureau shows that not only that every immigrant brought out under State assistance was' ottered employment without delay, but for months past there had been a demand for im - migrants largely in excess of the supply. The Government, Mr Wade says, has had to bear the burden of mistakes made by privately directed organisations which attempt to carry out the larger and more difficult work of actually finding work for immigrants, but which, through want of proper machinery and experience, at times fail to place their men The Premier trusts that Count Morner will correct the impression he has created. As far as the Govtrnment is concerned, it is scarcely accurate, and is likely to do harm to a movement that ought to be encouraged.

H3W THINGS STAND IN > VICTORIA. | AGRICULTURISTS NEEDED. AND MEN FOR PIONEERING WORK. _j Received February 10, 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE, February 10. Sir Robert Best, Minister of Customs, interviewed, denied that there was any need for Count Morner or'anybody else to warn intending immigrants against proceeding to Australia or New Zealand. There was, the Minister declared, ample room and plenty of opportunities for suitable men to make a living in Australia, particularly as agriculturists. There was room not for hundreds, but for thousands, of the right type. The State Premier, Hon. Mr Murray, did not think the warning applied to Victoria. Probably the Consul Had New South Wales in view. Certain men, no doubt, found diffi; culty in getting work when they came, but they would probably have the same difficulty in any other part of the world. He knew no class who would make more successful colonists than Norwegians and Swedes, as they were willing to go into the bush and do' hard pioneering work.