STICKERS WANTED

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 8

STICKERS WANTED

IMMIGRANTS SUITABLE AND

.OTHERWISE.

While speaking' of the present ' anything but sound and satisfactory state of export and import trade in. Great Britain, at the New Zealand Club lunch-1 eon to-day, the Prime Minister referred tj the wonderful possibilities of exp'ari■sion of population in almost every. British colony and Dominion: New Zealand cpuld, and would ultimately, carry ten times its present population, not in one •year or two or five, but, eventually. In Canada, the possibilities ' were even greater, for it had vast tracts of land awaiting the plough. Australia was-in the _ same position, Africa \the same a?^?> tnough there, were greater possibilities there, no doußt. It was no use bringing people'from the footpaths, from under the,gas light and the electric light, to open up new and wild countries, but when the right class of people could be had, right welcomed would they be.,, He believed that while he was in England he -had done much towards arranging for a large number of immigrants of a suitable type for New Zealand.'

When he was'in Ulster a deputation had waited on him to inquire about settlements in the Dominion. They had, they said, a surplus of 250,000. "Give me 250,000 from Ulster and I'll take the lot," said Mr. Massey,. amidst great laughter, "because they're stickers."