MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4379, 27 March 1893, Page 2

MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1893.

In Sydney alone tliere are thirty-thou-sand destitute persons and very many of this pauper army" talk New Zealand." A well-informed Sydney resident who has mixed freely amongst the thirty thousand informs us that there are innumerable persons there who regard this Colony as a sort of Mecca to which they must travel. Our Government haß informed them that there is a haven here for the unemployed and that all sorts and conditions of men in this land are prosperous. Tbe destitute of Sydnoy are anxious to. share this prosperity and organised efforts are being mado for them to do so.

The trades unions of Sydney, have an out-of-work fund from which weekly allowances are paid to unem u ployed members. They have discovered that instead of paying a man ten or twelve shillings a week for the maintenance of hisfamily it is cheaper to pay his passage to New Zealand. In this way tho trades unions are already commencing the task of deporting the undesirable members affiliated to them. The bost men they keep, but any whom' tbey consider not worth retaining they bundle off to Now Zealand. Tho Sydney Trades Unions are now paying the passages of undesirable settlers to these shoreß, and as Bteamer after steamer comes in the Government organs cry Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay and congratulato the Colony upon the fine lot of fellows, with money in their pockets, who are landing .here. Of course, in a short time the labour market will be swamped with these new-comerß. Instead of there being thirty thousand destitute persons in Sydney, there will be thirty thousand destitute persons in New Zealand, and mostly in the Wellington provincial district. However, the Government will not object, because they will be able to make good voters of them all at the coming general eleotion, The tradesmen of Sydney and Melbourne are dumping down at our doors all the impecunious people in Australia, and New Zealand settlers will have to be taxed to feed and clothe them. It may, of course, be said that some few years back, thousands of men left our shores to seek work in Australia, but those who then went away were fine able bodied fellows who could earn a living anywhere, If these only were coming hack to us we should have little cause for complaint, but unfortunately it is the riffraff of tho tradesunionism, the dregs of the Australian labour market, that are now being systematically despatched to New Zealand.