ITALIANS AS IMMIGRANTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 439, 23 February 1909, Page 4

ITALIANS AS IMMIGRANTS.

VY(bi TziyEonira—special counEsroiihENTV: .-;• , '^^^r•;y^"■■■K^■:■•■^.A : :v;:■■'Auckla^dj■ : '•FβilVuii■yv'.2l^;■V ; V: : /: The Rev.; Pr'.Capra - ,-doctor of science and V-..-', agrioulture of .Milan,'"ltaly has'arrived ifi'.- ; .: Auokland, aftor."spending:: sonio: time in the . South'ilsland.- Speaking .to a "Herald"., re*-.'> ' .porter,last evening.he;said:that .the'object- of . ■-, .his visit to: New Zealand was to get a good >; general knowledge''-of-the agricultural.aftairs ~':'; of.this:country."in order that lib might make.;.;,, known to his countryuien the true conditions -' : -;■ of-land uh'New ■Zealand."' 'The V Italian farincr is scientific in ..his methods,vespecially in fruit growing and dairy farming, .;-. and -Dr. Capr'a'considers(that:if ; .his xoiin-; ' v irymeri:-, could ;.:be induced: to 'emigrate : and"... > settle on. some of the beautiful land he had ■ >-' seen'hero, they would, , '.by .their scientific' - v ; ."cultivation; and .methods,; add 'greatly to .the .'"■ '■; wealth of the Dominion.. New'.;Zeawnd;wae'.-.V;'' So little known.in Italy, he said,: that.he was '■'■.- sure-that'■ .'when;the, opportunities which.tho.; ;" cbuntry : - offered .".were, made.; known many; of . his people would come , here ;to.settle.'; Thnt.-;... would lead to trade, relations,: and there were many articles produced in: the Dominion; such ■: as wool, frozen mutton,.and flax that : his . v country wanted; . Ho had been twenty-five - ; days:in tho Domiriioni-but hoped; tovsfay '■'••!•. Imuch longer. <Ho had found tlic'clim'atio con-. . : ditions very similar •to those. of ; Italy, and ' he'• intondpd going to' Rotoruu,'; arid -would" : probably: leave As a : teacher of. ■■; natural science he'was greatly-'interested in ' :the phenomena of•-,tho.".hot lakes district: ■- From llotorua ho would return to. Auckland ' and•"then go on:to,-AYellingtpn, 'whence he ■ '■ would' travel to Now- South 'Wales. : ': , ; ; ;' ■"•-'.