At the New Zealand Farmers' Union Conference in Wellington Mr A. Speacer, president of the New Zealand Immigration and Land Settlement League, said that immigrants were leaving the country in shoals and returning to England. Third-class accommodation was hooked for months ahead, and the steamers were leaving full. Our taxation was the highest per head in the world, and more population was imperative. These people were carrying a tale of woe throughout the United Kingdom, and this was fatal to the Dominion. The Prime Minister had said 10,000 immigrants had heen absorbed into the population, but the speaker would defy him or anyone else to prove it.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3131, 21 August 1922, Page 7
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