TO ENCOURAGE IMMIGRATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 207, 29 August 1912, Page 8

TO ENCOURAGE IMMIGRATION.

THE BIGHT CLASS, (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary _epon_» * WELLINGTON, W«d_e*laj. "I am convinced," .remarked the Prim Minister this afternoon, w__e dwnis____! the question of assisted ___migra,t__!f "that 'if we are to obtain a fair pronar' tion for this country of tbe farm ]___! onrers available in Great Britain and Ireland, it Kill be necessary to iieduce tto amount of money required ____, these men for bringing them here, Th terms by which they can travel both to Canada and Australia are much mora favourable. I am informed that there a.re numbers of the very men -vre want in country districts in England, Ireland and Scotland: but the inducements are not sufficient to bring them here. We - have got to make the inducemeniß 1 sufficient. 1 "I want to say," went on Mr. Massey "that instead erf slowing down as far a_ immigration is. concerned, we must do a great deal more than is being done at - present. X this country is to progress - we must have population of the rLjhi"'-'.? class. We want men with a certain amount of ambition, men who will not ' be satisfied to remain farm labourers, C but who will loeik forward to getting on ■"?-? to farms of their own."