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The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1887. IMMIGRATION.

The Post declares thai" Immigration, and consequent population, is the great and crying want of the colony at the present moment. If we do not secure this, emigration will soon set in, While the population* remains stagnant the number of unemployed will naturally incroase, and their needs become greater and more, pressing, If we had plonty of immigration of tho right sort-air influx of capital as woll as of hands: of men with tho means to afford employment to others—we should soon cease to hear of the unemployed and' the depression. To secure a stream of proper immigration should be the cliiof aim of our statesmen, and Now Zealand will owe a debt of gratitude to whoever succeeds in doing this," There is a good deal of worldly wisdom in the remarks of our Wellington contemporary, but while wo fully admit the advantages to' bo derived from immigration of the right sort, wo are not sure that endeavoring to secure a stream of proper immigration should bo the chief aim of our statesmen. Their first duty ought rather to bo to make the people now in the colony happy and prosperous. If this is achieved, the immigration difficulty is solved, becauso a thriving colony docs not need to offer inducements to immigrants, it cannot keep them a.vay. The condition which our Wellington contemporary desires to bring about . is that New Zealand should run after immigrants of tho right sort. Tho right condition, howevor, is one whero immigrants' will run after New Zealand,, Our.Wollington'contemporary has not yet expressed an' opinion on the land nationalisation scheme'- of the Government, but if it'favors immigration it can hardly support a project of this kind. Tho "right sort, of immigrants won't come out to this colony to take up Crown leases when'they can get unlimitod froeholds noarer home. Our contemporary vory justly notices tho fact that tho colony is now stagnant, but do not tho freaks which Ministors play with land titles account . to a great extent for this undesirable condition, Why does not our contemporary denounce this mischievous policy, instead of suggesting State , aided immigration.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2566, 5 April 1887, Page 2

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The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1887. IMMIGRATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2566, 5 April 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1887. IMMIGRATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2566, 5 April 1887, Page 2

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