"British chartered companies, with British brains behind them, and heavily subsidised by the British Government," was the solution for N.Z.'s immigration problems offered by Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, in an address sponsored by the Christchurch Rotary Club. Mr. Hunt said he shuddered to think of the results of a Government plan—under any Government —for bringing 50,000 or 100,000 people a year to the Dominion. The colonising successes of chartered companies in the past were an argument in support of his suggestion.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXII, Issue 4672, 1 August 1938, Page 5
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