INQUIRIES MADE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 250, 21 October 1944, Page 8

INQUIRIES MADE

SCOTTISH EMIGRANTS

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS

Inquiries about emigration from Scotland to New Zealand, are made in a letter which Mr. J. Lilico, of Panmure, has received from Mr. James A. Reid, a Scottish solicitor in a large practice, who is thoroughly conversant with British farming conditions. The latter states that wages in Scotland were now high, and would remain so permanently. Therefore, the flow of .emigrants would not be large. Owing to the scarcity of agricultural labour, Italian prisoners were being used to a large extent.

Mr. Lilico stated that "at various times Mr. Reid had sent him excellent ■ farmhands, drilled under the best farmers in the world, also a domestic who, besides being a good housewife, volunteered to help in the harvest field. He added that when farming in Southland he was personally responsible for the arrival from Britain of over 30 adult farm workers. All had given satisfatcion, and had done weir for themselves. There was at present a demand for sharemilkers, and on current terms he was satisfied that he could find a hundred in a month on the lowlands of Scotland, the border of England, and in Northern Ireland. He considered that the Government should assist eligible married couples with passage-money.