FAVOURING THE IMMIGRANT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 5

FAVOURING THE IMMIGRANT.

(To the Editor.) Sir. —As a New Zealander T protest against the following advertisement in your Situations Vacant column: —- "Plumber, Carpenter, and Labourer wanted, must be new arrival?."' I. for one. know that men born in Now Zealand are faithful workers, and it i> a. slur upon us, also our fathers who Hrougrht us up to love our l>ominion. We have protested many times against the "new arrivals" the Government is bringing in to take work at a reduced wage. We New Zealanders are being forced from our different trades, and have to take on anything for a living. We want our boys to learn a trade, but what encouragement do they get when their fathers, competent tradesmen, are among the unemployed? We New Zealanders are reasonable, but we don't want '"new arrivals" to come out here and get our jobs by working for loss money. The man who is advertising in. your paper for "new arrivals'' simply wants cheap labour. "We want population to make our Dominion more prosperous, but does a New Zealander get any' encouragement, seeing that his bread and butter is being taken from him by the ''new arrivals" taking our jobs throush working , for anything, so lonsr a=; they get a footing? Children are what we want: but when >~e\v Zealanders are up against it through the likes of the advertiser I refer to. it isn't likely that our birthrate will increase, for there is no security of employment, and the cost of living is outrageously high.—l am. etc.. NEW ZEALANDER.