ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 237, 3 October 1908, Page 8

ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.

H pTW ZFiALANDERS' COMPLAINTS. _ff_r Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Wm, A. debate arose in the House of Reprel|*?ptativ_s this evening in regard to as- , «-ted immigration, Mr. Herries complain- ____? that some of the immigrants were not fatS 1 ?* suitable character. ~\ The Hon. J. McGowan gave figures as \ tytfce amount of capital brought out by * 1 T system, and added that during the f fe 3 few months no less than £ 11.756 had f ■-._ 7 J deposited by persons who desired *■ ; % e^T relations should* come out f£y_-\ ew . ZeaJa nd, and guaranteed them _W~ \ation on arrival. -»■'" . Aitfcen cited a case in which a J, . '" be assisted immigrant was refused X IDCe by the Bti ° h Conunissione r, and U I T^ c man - wnen he came out here -il s ovm " had three billets offered 17g7 thin a day or two after arrival. «>_*; , dcrthe best we can to get the best a_s said the Hon. J. feGowan, in reply. Mr. Massey referred to the articles hich had lately appeared in the Welngton papers as to the character of the la-migrants coming out here, and he de- * rom those articles the conclusion pfhat there are a certain number of assisted immigrants who have n 0 claim on |the country, and wtto ought not to be |«tesisted by the Government. Many jfpeople came out under that system who E.would later on simply swell the ranks ;%*i the unemployed. He was afraid that '•uffieient discrimination was not exer- | aased. -F "Every care, so far as we know, is taken," said the Minister for Justice in ..;Jeply. !.* ~' : The people that England wants to <*et i-Xid of we do not want here," declared Dr. S Chappie. B Mr. Rutherford said that he had met fctwo of the immigrant steamers in Wel■vlington, and was of opinion that a great I many of the immigrants were not the B?6ort of men New Zealand wanted. They ||were certainly not farmers or farm laj| tourers. He thought that the Dominion S?5-ould be well advised to tap a new Ksource of supply, and get immigrants |f_ro_n Scandinavia. * V /'The stuff that is landed on our shores ■___t nothing more or less than the wreckage :i:lf the industrial system of Great Brill lain" remarked Mr. Palmer. He said fljlhat most incorrect reports of the labour I {conditions prevailing in New Zealand ! |pere circulated in the Motherland, and i _he wasters of London were being shipped to the Dominion at the expense of i fthe Home authorities. That was not to ; Zealand's advan_ge, though, apparently it could not be stopped. Several ikher members spoke on similar lines. .. If The Hon. Jas. McGowan said that the ircat majority of the immigrants were of It a "good class, and were an acquisition to 5 the Dominion. The Government did not f employ lecturers on New Zealand, all it f, ; did being to supply lantern slides to |> some people. The Government did not fc propose to assist any immigrants except Ifrom Great Britain.