The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1886. STATE DIRECTED EMIGRATION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2469, 6 December 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1886. STATE DIRECTED EMIGRATION

I We have received a pamphlet describing tbi acope of a Society establiehed in London for the purpose of directing State v aidfld ..emigration. The names of the promoters/of 'tfie Society 1 include almost every titled individual interested in the Colonies, from the' Archbishop of■(fanterburv to the,. Colonial AgentGftwraJfl/audit would be almost abiurd

to question the wisdom or expediency of a scheme endorsed by so many, 'tt w^£appc«f ; thafc l ;a : B:'tlteioolonl|s no' lorigeri'offer special 'relieve,:?; the mother SjSMJf of thg' whicjphe Coloniesfoimerly performed. TherMre something like a million of unepioyedin England, principally in the mgtojriig, and it is deemed expedistiouW be transferred so .the Qolonies,. whatit catla J^lL ß jat§li)Z , .-i.ljich r .-briefly.-Btated, from the British Government, and expending th|g"Mh"jin| advanced tokmigrants, who arc expedted to rlpay them, and a small rate,of intereskinto the bargain, Once system" is expected to The three millions; as they come baok to the Society o to be lent out again and turned over and over till all tbe-imem-ployed of the British Isles are transformed into thriving colonists. One Mtle difficulty, and only one,, bars the progress of. this great system," and that ia an evident reluctance on the part of the British Government to advance the three millions. - Assuming that this | obstacle will ,b» surmounted, the "system will possibly work out and prove beneficial to both the mother country and the Colonies. We say possibly; ..because there is bomb little risk of the three milltons paid out not coming baok again as anticipated. If . it did not there is some consolation inthe fact that it would be circulated in the Colonies, but then the loss of it would be thrown in colonial teeth for many a long year by an indignant British public, and would tend to mar that federating policy which is now so popular at homo. We cannot help fancying that the Society would not.prove Heft-supporting whatever the Archbishop of Canterbury and noble Lords and gallant Knights and leading colonists may say to the contrary. If for example a family were sent under" the system" to New Zealand, the Society would pay passage money, cost of eighty acres of land, and some subsistence allowance till the said family made a little headway in the antipodes, The cost of transferring this family to oui shores might be £2OO or £3OO, let us put it down at £250. The family would be expected to pay 4 per cent interest on the advance, and repay the prinoipal by ten annual instalment*, Its first yearly payment would therefore amount to about £35, and those who know what life in this colony is, will venture to prediot that this payment to the Society would not prove very convenient to a newly arrived settler, Wnother the Society would make further advances for the purobase of stock and the building of a cottage we know not, but if it did this would only increase its risk. The Society proposed to secure itself by taking a mortgage on the Bottlors land, or in other words it advances £250 on a security whioh it values at about £4O. People who usually advance £250 on a security worth £4O don't usually get '. their motiey back and we should be very muoh surprised if the London Society proved an exception to the rule. There is evidently a craze about the Colonies in London when a South Sea Bubble like this ia launched. Fortunately New Zealand is a little out of the running of the Society. The pamphlet states that land nationalise tion has been praotically adopted in this colony and that the system, unless it is modified, will not apply to us, Some of our radical leaders are apparently doing this colony incalcu. lable mischief by creating the impression in England that trochoids here are no longer obtainable. It is, peihaps no great loss to us that we should be ouUide the system of this new enterprise, but it is an injury to us that tbe colony in a widely circulated pamphlet Bhould ticketed as a "land national, ised" community.