IMMIGRATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7301, 3 December 1910, Page 2

IMMIGRATION

ADVICE BY SCOTTISH COMMISSIONEKS. The Scottish Commissioners at present visiting the Commonwealth, havp been giving some good- advice in regard to immigration, it requires organisation to attract immigrants and to assist . them to become producers, they point out. 1 it is the enterprising : policy, of the Canadian railway companies during the last lew 1 years ’which: have, enabled Canaan to absorb so, many immigrants. There -is no reason why, Australia should not 'gain all or a larger number of those ,who annually leave sGreat Britain-for iother countries l if the, . organised . efforts to.secure Ahem which have been.adopted : by Canada are followed. The Canadian' Government and the railway‘companies iwork together in advertising for settlers. “One of the factors ' which tell in- fatvour of Canada and tho United' States,, 'as compared with Australia, in attract-! iug immigrants'; is their proximity, to the. Old Laud. It is no "Cheaper to reach the western prairies in Guuada thin it is to reach Australia, but it bikes much less time, and .when a young man, after two or three years’ work in Canada., saves, some money, he can run home for the months in winter when outdoor work is suspended -in Canada; It appears to me that it would bo a great advantage if immigrants were guaranteed-a preliminary training of a few months after their arrival for their new life and occupations. Thousands of young men who have no choice but to become clerks or shop assistants in tho Old Country would gladly take to the laud in Australia but for their ignorance of farm life and rural conditions. If such men were sure of obtaining work on small, wages, ; or none .at ail even, for a few weeks after arrival, on a larm under Government supervision, so that they could bo broken in before •having to fend for themselves, they could bo obtained in large numbers,“