UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10045, 20 July 1910, Page 4

UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

i ; Whilst Britain Is groaning under an excess of population, the Empire's Dominions are crying out on account of the deasth.of people. It is necessary for the progress of the coloDies that immigration should be forced phead, but it is essential that people of the right class should be encour- ' aged to east in their lon with us. r The tide of humanity that has flowed for the last century from ! Europe to the West has been enorm--1 ous, and yet the supply is undiminished. There is this to be noticed, I however, whereas in the past, and i up to quite recently, any and every ' one was admitted as colonists. [Now some discrimination is being urged, and rightly so too. Societies exist in England dfor sending relays of young people to the colonies. They have the iiignest credentials, and their work is a success. Youngsters thus sent out take readily to farm life, and become useful colonists.

'X here are others who go out, in no way connected with these recognised Home agencies, who have been failures in the Old Country and want to try their hands in a new country. The unfortunate fact is that experience has taught the colonies the useleasness of this sort of immigrant, and how soon he becomes a burden on the State. Consequently he is not welcomed, and the ship that brings him out has to cavry him back at the owner's I expense. Canada up till recently took all and sundry who landed on | her shores. That Dominion has now entered upon a new policy, and has found it necessary to impose re-

I strictsojis for the regulation of im- ; migration, following in the footsteps of Australia and New Zealand. The Canadian authorities are greatly desiroas of strengthening tlie British element in Ca?jada, ana want the right c!»as of people. What the ; British colonies object to is the ■ dumping of the revolutionary £ct cblisto of a low type from the ! European continent on thsir shores. ! Ths Dominions are q'Jite within 1 their rights in excluding undesiri ablss, and at the same time using all legitimate endeavours to induce stttlers of the right stamp to immigrate to their shores.