LAND AND IMMIGRATION.
TII3 States of the Commonwealth, to say nothing of the Dominion of Canada, are making a bold bid to secure immigration of the right sort. That they have succeeded where we, in New Zealand, have failed, is unhappily too true. How have they done it? Solely by liberalising their land i laws. Instead of inviting people to • their shores, as we have been in the habit of doing, and letting them take pot luck so far as the land is concerned, they have taken strangers by the hand, made them welcome, found them land, and advanced money against their work. We talk in New Zealand of our Advances to Settlers' Office and our beneficent land laws and all that trash. Why, a man arriving in New Zealand without capital has no more chance of getting an estate straight away than he has of flying. And as for the Advances to Settlers' Office; well, the least said of it the better. It hals for some time past been practically a dead letter.* Unless those charged with the j administration of our public affairs ~ wake up, we shallbe very much in I the rear in the march of progress.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10072, 20 August 1910, Page 4
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200LAND AND IMMIGRATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10072, 20 August 1910, Page 4
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