A WORD TOR THE IMMIGRANT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1927, Page 6

A WORD TOR THE IMMIGRANT.

I Your correspondent '"Know Your Place" 1 | attacks the Prime Minister, the immigration I system, and immigrants. "Why didn't yo a I stop at Home?"' he asks. Poor, tolerant, miser- | ahle soul, who seems to hate to hear the voices ;of his own race. He sees 11s through his narrow gauge haiivi of half starved, emaciated refugees, and presumes we will not have j backbone enough to strike back. Does he not 1 know it is not merely the generosity of our Prime Minister, as he terms it. but the eternal wanderlust, handed down to posterity by his fore-parents and mine, and in thousands more, that is the reason whv we mecome immigrants, and, to all sane-thinking people, why Xew Zealand is a British possession! I"ortunately h_ was born a colonial, and maj" I presume, never have left his native soil, not e\en to protect it from its enemies. Consequently, he has never suffered : heartache for a sight of the things and tin dear ones he left behind. In my five vears' experience as an immigrant in this small town of Waikino. I I)?? truly say all colonial- are not of ths 'Know Your Place" typo. Unlike him. instead f>f treating us as poacher-, pessimists, etfc, they have given the helping hand and eiicoura"- • ing word, as all true-bred Bi itishers' descendants do the world over. XUXQL AM. Other letters to the Editor will be found .page 15.