BETTER MIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 8

BETTER MIGRANTS.

RESTRICTIONS VALUABLE.

SCOTS OF STURDY TTPE.

MOKE OF THK PIONEER STUFF."

Restrictions on immigration are j m . proving the oualiiy <if ihe migrant flow from Scotland n> Now Zealand, acx-ord-in? in the Rev. \V. M. (low. D.D.. late principal of the College of the Pioliytci i;ui to-ila\. w]io arrived at Auckland to-day on the Marania, in the coiir>«* of a world lour.

•■■\Vlipii Ihe rc'jiiiroi:ioiii - wore reduced Jo a minimum and requir<yl little money. 1 urn afraid New Zealand did not ::<-t s)i<> l>c-t of ih o Seottifi l>eoj.le." -aid Dr. flow in an interview. "Now 1 li.h t restric-

1 inn* ha\p Ix-eii ji n . I»'M'<l. the ty ]K . of ]..-,,],],» having Scotland f..r New Z ca . land i« vastly Mqiorior. Thon? who aif i!ii«raiin« froin Nf.Uan.l i (1 -day are ).f,.j,1,. who (v.iiipare ffMnirjililr Win Jlio-p of the early <!a>>. They have m<.iv of the pioneer >i"ff in Them and will l>c an asj-ct to liio country. it moans a mi nu-)<- :<• £o1 il u - ii«'-c-«-sMrr niiiiicy t<. n;;iko ih,- M.jsjo and ihoy are Letter cqui|ip<-d t<. ftari life in thi« new <-(.untry than were ilx.-t- for whom the way \va« niacin ea~v."

In Scotland people regarded X ew Zealand as a country without a p P( > r as far a> land settlement was concerned. Australia was looked uj«. n as offering ?icater commercial but jho«e who thought of ? <,i n? onthc land had New Zealand in view lir-t and fore",O>V i. ,™ Zoaland bll{ 'tr and lamb r-tood hiyh m The estimation of Scottish people and the market was increasing vcarlv. •