IMMIGRATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10510, 11 February 1920, Page 6

IMMIGRATION

NECESSITY FOB. PROGRESS.

THOUSANDS ANXIOUS TO COME.

"Things at Homo are not too good just now," said Mr J. Fox, who recently returned to New Zealand from the Old Country, speaking at the Progress league's meeting last night, "and tho people of this country do not seem to realise it. Conditions are bad a,nd I havo conio to tho conclusion that there are thousands of peoplo who, if facilities are given to them, -will como out to settle in the Dominion —not paupers, but middleoiass people who desire to live in a better climate and under better general conditions. 1 feel, as one who has travelled all over the world several times, that there must be lacking in tho people of Now Zealand the public spirit necessary to make the country attractive."

The safety of Now Zealand and Australia, and even of the Pacific, depended on the people of those imo countries. Australia was recognising the fact more oven than Now Zealand that unless they aet their h*uso in STuer and attract immigration other people who had a lesser right to do so might drop in. Ho hoped the proposed Progress League would arouse the enthusinsm of the people.