FIFTY YEARS AGO
NECESSITY OF IMMIGRATION) An increase in immigration into Zealand half a century ago vras thoug by many people to be the best way ® of the depression. The following * 5 • extract from a report of the church Chamber of Commerce dealing with the subject, which appeared in ® New Zealand Hkhald of December M "The Government should take 8, steps to encourage suitable lmnuP tion on a large scale, fr>r the P ur P°. settling the waste lands of the • and developing its mineral and resources. The report points ou .• the public works and services of colony are on a scale which 1 expenditure very much in excess' . requirements of the existing POP tion; that with 48,000,000 acres avaU able for settlement it appears mani that we should take steps to suitable settlers—such as small farmers of England possess*? capital; that the recent discover* new goldfields loads to the opi a j ono a liberal increase in populatio *j necessary for developing th resources of the colony.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22916, 20 December 1937, Page 8
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