THE IMMIGRATION BREAK-DOWN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 27, 1 November 1873, Page 9

THE IMMIGRATION BREAK-DOWN.

The 'North OtagolTimes' says : — " Railways without traffic, acres minus homes, wealth unequally distributed, taxation rendered heavy owing to an insufficiency of taxpayers — this is the inevitable prospect held out to the colonists should population cease to flow to our shores. This is the price we will pay for that party government which fills the Immigration Department with political nominees, whose sole qualification for the billet consists in their ability to receive the wages of corruption. The recent disgraceful reception of immigrants at Auckland, and the melancholy fact that both Canterbury and Otago are sending home agents of their own, are two damning proofs of the incompetency of both the London and Colonial Immigration Departments. We should not cast immigrants on our shores as it they were so much rubbish. By advice, and by paternal anticipation of the new comers' wants, we must prove to the newly-arrived colonist that he or she has not been persuaded to emigrate by false pretences. Nay, we would even Buggest that a Court should be established for the purpose of dealing solely with complaints preferred by immigrants against the Government, and by the G-overnment against the immigrants."