IMMIGRATION ADVOCATED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20607, 4 July 1930, Page 11

IMMIGRATION ADVOCATED.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS. DEVELOPMENT SCHEME URGED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Thursday. The need for further immigration as a solution of some of the problems affecting New Zealand was emphasised by Mr. F. Campbell, retiring president of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation at the annual conference of the federation today. Perhaps they would not all agree with him, said Mr. Campbell, when addressing the delegates, but he was in favour of immigration for New Zealand. He was satisfied that the country would never get back to normal until they took their courage in their hands and secured that flow of population which the Dominion needed. They wanted moro people. The late Governor-General had expressed the view as his honest opinion that what was wrong was to dump immigrants in the country and leave them, but, properly developed, good immigrants could do nothing but good.

Tt was said there were too many offices and shops, but the men who had capitalised them had to look ahead and anticipate progress. They had entered into those projects in the belief that the rate of progress would be maintained, but it could not bo done from the birth rate in New Zealand alone. The selection and proper placing of immigrants would bring Now Zealand back to a normal condition. It was not a question of too many shops bub of too few people;