IMMIGRANTS ABSORBED
DEFENCE OF THE POLICY.
(By Telegraph.—Press Asaociatie*.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
Addressing the Chamber of Commerce last night, Mr. H. D. Thomson, UnderSecretary of Immigration, gave ( an emphatic contradiction to statement* that a large number of Government immigrants returned to England and that the Government immigrants were swelling the local unemployed. Not 5 per cent, has returned to England, he said, and of the large number introduced during the last few weeks, every one had been sent to employment or friends, about 65 per cent, going to the country, and the balance to the towns, these being artisans or tradesmen. He empressed satisfaotion also with the work* ing of the chamber's scheme of introducing public school boys, which had proved a marked success. He saw no reason why the Dominion should reduce ite immigrants below 10,000 per annum. That number could be readily absorbed, but he would not at present advocate increasing tt*e quota.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 138, 11 June 1926, Page 8
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