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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17020, 17 December 1920, Page 6

A Wellington paper gives publicity to a scandalous misrepresentation on the part of an unnamed English paper in regard to the prospects for immigrants in' Ne-y Zealand. Tho statement was as follows: — New Zealand Warning.—Confirming our warning to British men and women to think not twice but thrice against emigrating to New Zealanu and then not to go, an Auckland lady especially emphasises that it is at present zm nlace

for women. British women, she says, j are brought out to slave in houses where tho New Zealand woman refuses to , work. Tlie.v aro no hotter off for wages, J for necessities are at famine prices. • Cabbages and cauliflowers are 4s to os each. Hundreds of Enplish and Scottish eirls are eating their hearts ont to rrct home. Newcomers are fleeced on every hand Once ajain, then, keep awav. Kepentance Ts painful and costly. The Auckland "lady" who supplied this preposterous nonsense was well advised to do so anonymously. Compared with tho conditions existing in the Old Country, those of New Zealand are in every way superior. The cost of liv?ng, take l ' all round, is lower, and life in pen em" for workers is easier and plensanter. The danger of such a misstatement lies in the impression it may make on those at Homo who are necessarily ienorant of the true position in New Zealand and we agree with our contemporary that it is tho duty of the Government to secure full publicity for a correct stafement of affairs. It should not he difficult to procuro convincing evidence in the desired directions from numbers of comparatively new arrivals. —* Although tho School of Agriculture at Sydney University has only just celebrated its tenth birthday, it has been remarkably successful in supplying men for a largo number of important positions. Founded in 1910, its first batch of four students graduated in April, 1914, and tho war ycrv soon occurred to interfere with their careers. All four joined the colours, one was killed, and of tho other three one is the newlyappointed principal of Hawkesbury Agricultural College, after having had a brilliant pofet-war career at Oxford, another is now agricultural instructor at Hawkesbury, and the third lias made a name for himself l>y his work in connexion with tho improvement of maize. Tn the second year of tho School there were also four now students. One of thrm, after tho war, was awarded an Agricultural Research Fellowship, 'and has done notable work in tho investigation of wheat and other cereal rusts in Now South "Wales, England, and America, and has now been appointed lectured in agricultural botany and plant pathology in the Sydney School of Agriculture. Another of tho four is a lecturer at Hawkesbury, the third is a demonstrator at Sydney University, and .tho fourth is chief experimentalist in the New South "Wales Agricultural Department. Subsequent students are occupying positions as assistants to the biology branch of that Department, senior lecturer on biology and nature study at the Teachers' Training College, N.S.W., and so on. Graduates of tho School havo done such good work in their studies at Home that the Colonial Office is said to have been lately enquiring as to tho possibility of getting some of them for positions in the Agricultural Departments of some of the Crown colonies, and it is reported that New Zealand has been discussing the advisableness of sending few picked students each year to tho Sydney School. The value of agricultural scienco is so great, and the need for trained instructors is so rapidly increasing, that for years to come, it appears, there will bo a demand for men of proved ability to tako up tho work.