The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1886. STATE EMIGRATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2231, 27 February 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1886. STATE EMIGRATION.

sThe ;?hfewsSwhicli,' ilia's, recently j ■received,by cable taHing,us Vtfaaty.Lbrd.l ■Emigration toj_the 'cplpnies/; [£. a matter thrttf'should interest-/the 'Gdyernnienk v and people.of New,'Zealancl. : |.;.' Already' we are: mpro;.'than threatened with a ■poor rate, : in Jidditionv to the extraor : dinary burthen of taxation which we rare now compelled to hear. :The:im- ; portatioivof lije .clans of Unemployed which the Home is at present so anxious to dispose of, .would not be likely to benefit a colony jilce; New Zealand. Of course there might be some among the State-Aided Emigrants who would, in the end, turn out e;ood colonists, but these WAuld bo a small minority, and would possibly object to beiug sent out as paupers, The .direct consequenoe of a wholesale importation ,of unemployed to New Zealand would be, we should have an increase of that class of, men who stay in towns at starvation wages, rather than.go into the country and carve out a home for themselves in the virgin bush, Anyone at all acquainted with the class comprising the surplus population of large towns, must be aware that% proposed State aided deportation would not bp an acquisition. Young men of energy from, the agricultural districts of the United! Kingdom, on the contrary, could sue-: ceed much better here, and would find' ,a b.etter opening in New Zealand than aayothe,r class of men. The ranks of the artisan class are already filled ,up, and the .colonial poured; youths are already sorarnbling for any and every employment that: requires brainwork, in preference to following agricultural pursuits, It

is not at all improbable that tho surplus population, which is at present such h thorn in the side of the Government of the United Kingdom) will consent to be extradited to tho Colonies, As far as New. Zealand is concerned no Government would be likely to accept such imigrants as we should b'e invited to receive at the hands of the authorities of Great Britain. A scheme might be devised whereby a suffi jient area of land could be placed at the disposal of the Home Government, on the perpetual leasing system, to which they might deport a picked number of families suitable as immigrants. But, whatever scheme is adopted by Great Britain in its emergency, it behoves the Colonies to look out and see that a thriftless class of drones is not thrust upon them against their will.