The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1889. The State Colonization Scheme.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3215, 28 May 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1889. The State Colonization Scheme.

The National Association for promoting State Colonization has issued a second pamphlet, written by the Bight Honorable Lord Monkswell, one of the Secretaries of the House of Lords Committee. Tho idea of an English Association promoting emigration naturally jars upon the tympanumof ahard working colonist, because ho is likely to taite it for granted that those who undertake to promote emigration from the United Kingdom would send away those people whom they do not want to remain there. New Zealand at one time had a very lively time of it., through the agents at Home accepting almost anybody who came and offered himself. The cargoes of the Woodlark, the Edwin Fox and the Oxford are not likely to be forgotten

in a hurry. The ideas of the Association referred to appear, however, to run in a different groove. The prominent members have an idea that they would promote the interests of I the colonists as well as those of- the working classes at Home by sending out as many farmers as possible, with the idea of relieving the large towns from the numbers who flock to them annually from the agricultural districts. That they are honest in their intentions may be inferred from the fact that they are desirous that those colonies which are anxious to avail themselves of the assistance offered by the Association should appoint agents to confer with them'! in the selection of emigrants. It is very certain that it would not be at all advisable to allow the Association to select whom they liked to send out, so.far as New Zealand is concerned, Lord Monkswell, by way of illustration praises one or two private efforts that have been made, Among them we find the following:—"ln 1884 Sir Francis de Winton co-operated with the Baroness Burdett Couttsin settling in Manitoba nineteen families from Westminster and East London, The following trades were represented: —cavponter, shoemaker, cabdriver, timber, sawyer, Cooper, milkman, blacksmith, ox-polioeman, engine driver, cat's meat man, painter, and old soldier," We are not exactly clear as to how a colonist would look upon an ex-policeman and an old soldier if he were asked to say whether they were tradesmen or not, We have no objection to them as colonists, but we do think it is just a little far-fetched to say that the fast of being worn out in Her Majesty's service, or that of having been on the tramp fn a square until it has become too monotonous for human endurance, is a trade,-' It may be oue according to the notions which prevail at Home; but if sowell, the more our own Colony looks after its own interests in this direction the better. Whatever may be said in favor of the idea that the land which remains unoccupied in New Zealand• should- be: reserved for the risjng generation,,no one will have the courage ta.sav,. that the Colony as a whole would hoc jjp if) a far better, position if all the. waste lands were occupied'at the presept ,timß,:fljtj}er as farms proper or sheep orcattleruns, / %. Cplony- has. a very heavy debt, to ; sliaiiß',' pff, .and the more occupants'of the soil,we have, : the quicker will r it pull itself together.' If the lias the means of sending put a number of

flmaU.oapitnlists who'ftfecortain, to; Bet to'Myotk- audtiil the sooner they arrive tho better will it be';for the .colony; and' wo- believe that; with, proper; supervision:. there would be. iio difficulty in soleoiing: a large number of tho right stamp of men, The Association appears- to be honest in its intentions; biit'with- 1 out,the assistance of experienced agents from tho colony it would be a certain failure..' At any rate, the Colony caimoUfford to run the risk of receiving, more Woodlark shipments, because its gaols would not bo largo enough to hold all that would be entitled to admission.