AVERSE TO MIGRATION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 6

AVERSE TO MIGRATION

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, 6th April. A New Zealander writing to the "Yorkshire Evening Post," refers to conditions in the Dominion.

"I am arked repeatedly by people in this country what chances they would have in Now Zealand," he says. "My invariable reply is: 'If you've got a iob and a house here, sta^ where you are.' As for the 'golden opportunities' on'o hears and reads about, I think they exist only in Ihe imagination. "In regard to farming. There aro hundreds of New Zealanders only too eager to avail themselves of these opportunities—men and women who are r % afraid of real hard work, and a life of solitude—but good land is dear and capital scarce. I would urge the intending migrant to uso just a little common sonso in the matter. Joes he still imagiuo that after a world war that shook civilisation to its foundation and loft the. British Empire gasping like a half drowned man, that after the storm and stress of 'eight years' peace,' there is still one coiner of this Empire a fat and flourishing Utopia? "Let him look at the question in this light, and he can tako any nonsense ho hears of 'wonderful chances' with a grain, of salt."