NEW ZEALAND AS AN EMIGRANT FIELD.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1457, 3 November 1881, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND AS AN EMIGRANT FIELD.

The deputation which went out to New Zealand last autumn for the purpoa° of reporting on the state of agriculture have returned home, and express themselves thoroughly pleased with their visit. Mr Edward Herring 1 has already made known some of his views in connection with farming in New Zealand in an agricultural contemporary, and we have no doubt that his remarks will lead man) British farmers to make up their minds — as he himself has done — to proceed to New Zealand in the spring and settle there. Mr Hen ing does not advocate a wholesale emigration of English agriculturalists. Speaking generally, he says men who cannot invest £1000 ought not to trust themselves and families in the colonies, the present prices of produce being so much lower than in the past ; and as to the prospects for general laborers, they are not any better. Many a good farm hand, he states, has to tramp many a weary mite, and endure considerable hardships, before he may find employment. This is hardly consistent with the following sentence that 80 or 90 per cent, of the laborers he met up country and in town wore " idle, dissipated, roving fellows, who were such at home, and came out to the colonies under the system of free emigration, believing they could literally pick up a good living." If 80 or 90por cent, are idle and dissipated, how is it that many a good farm hand has to tramp many a weary mile for employment P We do not deny that there are many " swaggers" or "loafers" in the colony, wo agree with Mr Herring that 10 per cent, are good and 90 per cent, are bad. Mr Herring does not wish the old and experienced agriculturalists who have farmed highly and bred first-clasa stock here, and who cannot be expected to create farms abroad oat of the rough, to think that that there is no opening for them in New Zealand. He points out that there are thousands of acres suitable for them around Oamaru and extending to Timaru, which the owneis would sell in any sized farms— land that is already under the plough, or sown down, clean, in high native fertility, close to railways and shipping ports, capable of Rowing any crop and stock to perfection, in a fine bracing climate. To sum up, Mr Herring is satisfied that both Australia and New Zealand offer every inducement to the sheep and arable farmer of Great Britain, but the moiat climate and xunning streams in New Zealand will always give it the preferance repo rt which Mr Herring an d his a s sociate will make to the body ef English captalists who sent them out will clear up some of the questions left ©pen by the Lincolnshire delegates, Messrs Grant Foster, and there is no doubt that; when these two documents are studied by the agricultural class throughout Great Britain that a very large and valuable addition will he made to the English fanning element already located in Australia' and New Zealand. — JSxropeqn Mail, '

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