FUTURE OF NEW ZEALAND
Sir, —The reference in Monday's Herald to Major Bonder's book. "Sun on Summer Seas," with its forebodings of tragedy for this country brought about by Asiatic invasion makes gloomy reading. There is no doubt some justification for apprehension, but is it correct to say "nothing can be done'' ? Ihe reason this laud is an alluring morsel to certain other nations is its comparative emptiness. Such a condition is not without remedy, and 1 am of opinion that the work of greatest moment to which a statesman of this country can set his hand is the wise planning of a comprehensive system of immigration and settlement. With a sufficient population New Zealand could make a fair bid to defend itself and, in any case, with its empty spaces filled, the country does not offer the same bait to nations on the lookout for colonics. Immigrants from the British Isles are naturally the first ones we should welcome, but failing them there arc people from other nations who can, as they have already proved, make excellent settlers. With the resources at our hand the problem of unemployment should not present an insuperable obstacle. A.T.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22461, 3 July 1936, Page 15
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196FUTURE OF NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22461, 3 July 1936, Page 15
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