OUR IMMIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 252, 24 October 1925, Page 14

OUR IMMIGRANTS.

NOT ALL THE RIGHT TYPE. SO SAYS MR. V. H. POTTER. Deploring "the influence of Socialist doctrines," Mr. V. H. Potter last night, after expressing fear that we were not getting the right type of immigrant, said the young men of to-day appeared to be growing up more and more helpless, were not prepared to do what their elders had done, and were obsessed with the idea of money and pleasure.

Then Mr. Potter went on to say that the extreme Labour party was increasing this element, telling the young people to work fewer hours a week for more money—an unhealthy doctrine that would be as big a curse to Xew Zealand as it had been to Russia. Referring to the sending of ii message of sympathy to Mrs. Lenin on the death of Mr. Lenin, Mr. Potter said it was an atrocious thing that any organisation in Xew Zealand should be guilty of condoning the acts of such an archmurderer as Lenin. While on this subject, he declared that never in the past fifteen years had he seen such a bitter and antagonistic feeling displayed to Great Britain as had been exhibited in this election campaign. It was the bounden duty of the electors to see that the extreme Labour party never got into power.

As for putting the striking seamen in gaol, said Mr. Potter, the treatment was. too good for them. It seemed they had nothing to do there but smoke and read books from the library. They would be getting moving pictures next. They ought to get "a short shrift and a merry one."