IMMIGRANTS AND LAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 32, 8 February 1928, Page 6

IMMIGRANTS AND LAND.

I have read with interest, mixed witfc so® resentment, Sir Douglas Maclean's statiw on some causes of unemployment Kink agreeing with him as to the ajmy by the Governments of Britain and Xe* Inland, I think lie is too sweeping in Ids condemnation of the type of immigrants wane into the Dominion. We are not all rote-, and possibly seventy-fire per cent of Wan as ready to work for our adopted tomfrr as is the born colonial Sir Dooglai wnjfl* the Dominion wants fanners and fana wotkfn. Quite so, but surely he does not expect IfogHA or any other farmer to farm in JJew at the present inflated price of and raits. If there is money in it, how is it that go but Dominion farmers .either give up or go nude! That is perhaps one reason why so but immigrants take to keeping small shops instead of paying about three hundred per cent for land more than it is worth, although tterc is not much difference between the two from a money point of view. I think Sir Dongk: might have made some mention of the cost of land and rents as a possible 6ohrfjon of fe problem why so many immigrants hang aramd Auckland and other towns, and I suggest some practical method of farming at a reasoßillc profit. G. F. HOLIEAE.