ALIEN IMMIGRATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16921, 6 August 1918, Page 4

ALIEN IMMIGRATION.

ADVOCACY BY MR. RUSSELL. ! RETURNED SOLDIERS' PROTEST i I statement made at Dunedin recently , >y the Hon. (I. \Y. Russell regarding numeration of aliens was the subject of . iit ism at ,1 mectiiH; of the committee, if the Auckland Returned S. Idiots' Asso- ; iation lust evening. The following roso- j uti< a was carried — j "That we, the returned soldiers of Auckland, jn ' •to>' Wrongly against the itatenient made by the IE a. '• W. Rtis:ell at a ltiiu lieon given by the O'.ago Extension League regarding the import,!II -a of Norwegians, Danes Russians, etc., nto New Zealind We would call atteninn to the . la ims of those I?' fishers at iresent risking their lives and health on lie various hatllcfn uts. and would also UU'gest to Mr. Russell that, if he tan 't n see any ireans of em] ynient for men, i here are larg-> numbers at present look- | rig for such employment who ha\e more i ban earned the right liy lighting for it. ; md that then' are tens of thousands of j S'ew Zealanders yet to return «ho will 1 <eep Mr Russell busy, if they are to be 1 uiccessfiilly repatnated. without spending ! lis tune champiiir.iiiir the cuisp if' 'oreigners." ; The statement on which the returned ' soldiers' resolution is luse I wis made hv j Mr. Russell at a luncheon tendered to him j .11 Saturday, July 27. bv the (It,ago Ex- 1 '.infion League. The Minister, in urging 1 lie need for greater «> i! 11 ion. is reported 1 .0 have said that In- wis to t prepared to I irctie for a general immigration scheme. I nut we must look to the 'melnnd, to i Norway, and Denmark, and Russia, and | »ime other countries to send us men to dig : ind plough and d ■ all the rest of the work 1 hat was to be done in the Dominion. He j ivould bo prepared to pay the passage of i wiry rural \vrker, and the passage of his j ini!v as well. ;