A CANADIAN IMMIGRANT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 9

A CANADIAN IMMIGRANT.

'I THE CASE OF STINSON,

■The.case of Stinson, the Canadian, who cameto New Zealand this year with his wife : and family in order to found a new homo wherein to liyc aud die, is-one wliich Jniglit interest the Government and also thoso connected with tlio farm industry, writes our Wairarapa , correspondent. The reason why the case is interesting is that .Stinson.'has'gone-back to Canada with his ifamily~'and - New rZealand will, kiiovv him no .'.inore. ■ When Stinson landed in Wellington jie. was accompanied by his wife, four sons, land ono daughter, and a married daughter arid her'husband and family were waiting; behind in Canada in order to; follow on to 'New 'Zealand should reports prove favourable. The Canadian had money. His name.was . mentioned/ to a Minister, 'who said thaty he 'was just ■the-.kind of, man New Zealand and then Stinson set about to.look I'for. land. •■ He had not been twenty-four !;hours in-.quo;town.in. tho.iprovince,! Ijoford he had> received numerous deputations and' 'circulars from enterprising ■■: land; ; agones. Stins,on ■ was surprised, because, .• so.?.ifiar.ias hd.kc'nw, ho had/not mentioned-.anything) to : aiiybody,-'that he had comoio look'for land. ' The New Zealand Land Agents': .Department isono'of the most clover detcctiyo corporations in the Dominion, and Stinson need ■hot have been' ■ surprised,' because' if ho had "dreams at Auckland that lie was going to •look at a particular section at Wanganui, it :is quite-, probable that on his arrival at Wangamii; he would havo found a land agent waiting to-shovv him over the section. During'the time ho was being beseiged by the •land agents, Stinson appears to have been forgotten , by" the Government, which had said that he was just 1 the kind of man wanted. At any rate, ho got into the hands of some Philistines in some town, and in an unguarded moment signed to take a farm with the option of refusal in, say, a fortnight's time. Ho did verbally say that the "thing was'off," and at the expiration of the time was presented with a bill for £125 by somebody'interested. Stinson objected to pay, whereupon he was informed that if-ho took another property, tbo business would be , all right. The Canadian, rightly or, wrongly, stated that bo had no knowledges' that the document hn had signed was of a mandatory nature. . Ho had understood that if ho had done nothing in the matter, the business would have lapsed,-and ho had said that "it was ofF." Ho was still pressed to pay, -however, and objecting on moral grounds, ho .quietly left the Dominion, to bo followed- Liter by bis wife and ■' children. Now he is back in Manitoba, where his opinions, which may drift here shortly .through the newspapers, will not ho caleii'lated to induce immigration from the Land .of the Pine. •