IMMIGRANTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 August 1924, Page 10

IMMIGRANTS.

RETURNS FOR' YEAR. PLANS FOR- SETTLEMENT. .TRADESMEN WANTED. (by tt-UjF.graph—pruss association.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 13. The annual report- of the Department of Ipimigration was laid on the table of the House to-day. The report states that the total number of_ arrivals in New Zealand from the Lnited Kingdom during the year was II.JBB, excluding New Zealanders. Out- of a. total number of persons arriving 6752 were assisted by the New Zealand Government during the year. Thirty-three steamers brought out assisted immigrants. Mr. P. Fraser (Wellington Central) asked the Minister to state to the House whether there was any plan or system under which immigrants arriving in New Zealand were to be settled.

Mr. T. K. Sidey (Dunedin South) urged the Minister not to bring immigrants- to New Zealand at a rate taster than they could be readily absorbed.

Mr. AY. E. Parry (Auckland Cential) said tnat until the Government was able to provide our own people with land and homes they, should not embark on an immigration policv winch could only have the effect of swelling the unemployed. Air 0. Hawlcen (Egmont) deprecated the idea, that people who come from Home should be put on New Zealand rr K ’ X - were not fitted for that•i e. i\ hat we wanted were tradesmen, and they got better wages than men on the land got. l ? Ir ’ S' tf olla :» d (Leader of the SaKl SOm ? of the immiipants he had seen on the West Coast "■ere most desirable peoole. They were wfTbl & T could" possibly send, ' - labour. Party would welcome Mich immigrants so long as thev dbl not peopk already here? Mr. R.. McKee-n (Wellington South) wanted to know what provisions we-e being made_ tor the future .of the nubac schools boys who were brought- out ml? of !" lie Hon AY. Nosworthy said the (he N«, 1fe at r had re P OT “« J me iNeu Zea and system .of immisrra uon was‘the best in the- Empire The year’s expenditure had Teen \bo, t much the -same as last- year