MR. REES AND IMMIGRATION.
TO THE EDITOK.
Sir, —In Mr. Rees' letter he states thab the Ministerial Statement of 1887 was well received, " but unhappily the House threw out the votes for immigration." Now, it ia a notorious fact that our Premier has always been mad on the immigration question. What sane man can fail to see the downright folly of pouring in a lob of pauper immigrants at one end of the colony, and a better class going out at the other end ? This has notoriously been the case for the last half-dozen years. A panper lot coming in at the public expense, ard a better lot going out at their own expense. Give new-comers land for nothing if they will settle upon it, but no more taxation for the sake of providing billets for the purpose of introducing pauper immigrants. Let our electors set their face like a flint againsft any member who would countenance such expensive folly.—l am, etc., W.G.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9065, 28 May 1888, Page 3
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