BRAZIL WELCOMING THE JAPANESE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 June 1913, Page 5

BRAZIL WELCOMING THE JAPANESE.

In* contrast to 'California's- attitude towards the Japanese, Brazil is offering alluring terms to encourage the settlement of Japanese laborers on its faa-m lands. Japan has, of course, accepted the invitation with alacrity, and is about to send a contingent of 3000 immigrants. -Should this experhn.? it.prove a. success., she ,wiU ..send, Brazil some 4000aiimially for;:several 'years to come. How anxious the Brazilian authorities are to attract Japanese settlers nifty he gathered frOm the -inducements which they offered to a Japanese emigration- company at Tokio. .• As _ repoi'tecl,-• bj|" the Jiji (Tbkio), these inducements include: (1) A free grant of ,122,500 acres of land in the State of rSao Paulo; (2) the" privilege'ot>acquiring more neighboring land .as the. Japanese, colony grows; (3) tli'e Establishment of agricultural .- ■ experiment stations and schools at the cost of the Government; and (4) the payment by the Government of transportation for every immfgrajitt. , In :consider"atiori of these privileges'the' Japanese immig'rfi-' tipn company is -nnQer ol3li<rntion to'send to Sao 'Paulo at least.loo families of anricultural rsettlers;. a year if or five veai-s beginning with the current year. The above offer was*'made, by 'the State' of Sao Paulo in ■1910; • wlieii .its" Legislnturp. passed a special'law authorising the Executive. .Department to carry, out. the plans. ' Since/then "soverr.l J'apan-o-;e ;icents have "mado: a carot'ul study" oc'. the snil and climatic:■ roirditions .o? tlitt s?"t-inn -.vlwe t!:»: rvo;.:^i;<.!cl■ Jup;v.v c-ip colony is--to hx-atcd.. Tiu1 firrc^ti-. :-a:n;i revealed, the -iiii- i-tv^e«, t\v.\t tl:<- 'and is on:Juont!y .^h^\ IV,-- the I ciiltnro of v.ir'<\:-a st:Vi.>!or\vh.kik'; Ib "Hi dcr^nd-in ■■Ei-.-.Kil.