BRITISH IMMIGRANTS
EXTENT OF ASSISTANCE. OPINIONS OF FAEMEES’ UNION. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union spent some time yesterday discussing the extent of financial assistance that should he given to British immigrants. It was suggested that immigrants should be carried free by the railway on arrival in New Zealand, as a few pounds at that juncture meant much to newcomers and the cost to the people of the Dominion would not be noticeable. One delegate, referring to assistance in respect of children, thought provision ought to be made for more than two children. All families should be welcomed, no matter how many children there might be. Mr .T. H. Joll, Hawke's Bay, pointed out that all concessions must "be borne by the people. The primary producers were complaining now of their burdens. Immigrants today were already receiving concessions which the pioneers of half a century ago would have regarded with gratitude. - The president, Mr W. B. Matheson, disagreed with the argument that" the more people who came to the country the better. What was needed was the best class of settler. Those unfitted for a colonist’s life would only become a burden on the community.—Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 4 February 1926, Page 5
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