EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19851, 12 February 1930, Page 3

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

FIRST HAND ADVICE. A SUCCESSFUL SETTLER. (PBOM OTO OW. COgBB6*ONOTKT.) > LONDON, January 3.. . A letter which, should prove helpful to people thinking of • going out to New Zealand to settle appears in the "Hastings Observer" (Sussex) from Mr Harold W. Groome, of Fern Hill, Hawke.'s Bay. The reason for the letter was a con. tribution to' the "Observer" by Mrs Jones-Neilson (Dunedin), when she was in England last year. Mr Groome writes:. "She (Mrs Jones-Neilson) says that on the boat on which she went Home there were 450 third class passengers, nearly all of whom were disappointed emigrants. This is a very tall figure, but! take it that these consisted of fathers, mothers and families, with maybe only one breadwinner or emigrant, and say six or eight 'dependants. Had these children been of an age to start out on their own in the country- they could have taken the"ir chance side by side with the colonial children, for New Zealand is not an old people's country. It is for the younger generations who are willing to go back into the country to work on the land, and not stay in the towns! as & lot of: them are doinginpw, causing ill-feeling, between the born eolonial and the 'Homey/ as they are called.

" The towns are now too full of men trying to make a living in town with' a family to keep, and as long as there are more men coming out with families who. think to settle in the towns there will be still more disappointed emigrants returning home, for there are more than enough New Zealanders now to do all the work which is required in town. It stands to reason that the colonials should have the easier town jobs, for their parents had all the hardships of the early pioneers, which were very severe, therefore New Zealand is theirs by right of birth.

Ban. on Pictures and Dances. "Now let the young people come out who; are quite prepared to give up their pictures arid : dances, to get out in the back country and work, not just an eight-hour day, but work whenever there is work to dp, which I can assure them is very consistent, and they cannot go. wrong. But let the boy who thinks to get a town job out here stay at home, for he is not as he will soon,find out upon his arrival. "When a lad comes out to a job on the may think that 15s to a £1 per week is not much,-but he will find it is plenty and enough to save on, as I did. You don't need any money, for you can't spend it without shops, and the boss will always get you your cigarettes or any articles you require when he gets his stores out' from ./town. So you have nothing to worry about, only-put your wages under the clock, as they say, until such time as you have enough to start on a small place of your own. _"My advice is first-hand. I left Hastings on December 6th, 1919, and am now on my own.farm just a few miles from Hastings, New Zealand, and have been for the last five years. But before that time" I "was doing exactly as I have advised any young fellows to do who are thinking of coming out here, where you are always welcome as long as you keep out of the towns.''