NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 8

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

SHOULD IMMIGRATION BE •To th* Cditor \ « s May I trespass on your deductions from Dr. Neile'-. years ago the farmers robu-.l tie by to pay the betterment tat**??®' greed prevented close settlement and forced the cities into U-ing. - upon them. The cities had to and therefore had to protect industTTr!?% quently the farmer* lia\c for everything they buy. High high wages, and the farmer can to live, competing a* he does in ~ markets with countries that have not obstacles to cheaper (Auction. And back of the farmers reacts on the chU. farmers faii to buy. and unemployment^!? l up. To complete the >k, U s cirek, Dr jS? cries. ">top immigTai ;on : " What's If we are not a piwnn; <x>untrv able to in immigrants, ve aie a shruJdnj stumbling plong to another exodoL wore if men can't find the moner to \Ve mu>t set our I,«..um> in order, aa^SS l quickly. I hold no brief for the "Ennii.*?: me he is only the index of our iniariL'jf maintain oursehe-. One man mar mone_\ out of fi\e hundred acres and cattle than he would out of fiftv U5 under crops. But ten men can U™ !?* fort-ably on five hundred acres nnder while only one man can on the same pasture. Which is better for the natscSri course. I know the whole question ic ■■ i cated by the irortrapw; but no e\cu><? for sitting with folded handitaS disaster comes. The great mistake i«t*W lating the Kapec bill as a loss. I t joj-T®" los« to the individual; n i, a nation. And till the nation insists man shall use that part of the which belongs to him in such a many men a- -hall live bv it * dwindle, verifying Goldsmith's words: ™ 111 far*** land. to LaF?fniu- ill* m — \\ h*'U wealth amixnulat~s «Lnd * woEm.'