BOERS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1902, Page 3

BOERS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—.Above the signature Wm. S. Aickin I find in your columns of this evening's issue a letter urging the introduction of Boer settlers to this already prosperous colony—a colony acquired and made prosperous by the efforts, both civil and warlike, by the English, Irish, and Scotch, without the aid of many foreigners; and shall we English, Irish and Scotch now, having °borne the toil, the heat and burden of the day, appeal abjectly to our bitterest foes to come of their generosity to increase our populatioi* and to occupy our land? No, Sir, let them go to their own fatherland, where their cleanly habits, their agricultural and pastoral skill, industry, perseverance. and ultra-Calvinistic doctrines may be thoroughly appreciated. If our lands are to be occupied and cultivated, let them be parcelled out to and occupied by the English-speaking race, to whom attractive inducements should be offered to draw them hither. Holland has had for many years quite a bellyful of fighting with the Acheenese, and the latter have generally come out on top, therefore let Holland accept from the British authorities as a gift all the Boers who have been' captured in South Africa, deport them to Java, without soap, arm them with their beloved Mauser, and a sufficient number of hand-sized white flags, with a few tons of the unrevised version of the Bible thrown in, and so •finally end the Acheenese war, with credit to Holland and great and lasting comfort to the warlike and pious immigrants about whom Mr Aickin appears to be so extremely anxious— or is it about the land that his spirit is troubled? If so, our genial Minister of Lands, Tom Duncan, will attend to that. I do not, Sir, for a moment assume that Mr Aickin owns sufficient territory to accommodate 1000 Boers and their families, and 1 cannot for a moment suppose that even were he such a territorial magnate he would for the sake of a mere pro-Boer sentiment hand over his smiling broad acres to men who have shed the best blood of his countrymen at Majuba Hill, Magersfontein, and elsewhere in the South African war. Wherever the Boer lands on British territory, he lands with undying hatred to the British race in his heart; he is, therefore, a most undesirable immigrant, and we will have none of him.—l am, etc., J. O'MEAGHER. Auckland, January 6, 1902.