ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.
&IH.-I see by to-day's Times Chat thegains to the Dominion from a immigration I point of view have been very disappointing. 1 might ask: Is ;,ot our Government assisting to populate Victoria and New hout.li Wales at our expense? In the year loo* I arrived m Melbourne, thanks to an assisted procured ], T mv sister rom the Wori.ui Government, at a cost to that 'Government, speaking from memory, of £10, the costing, I thin.;, £16 altogether. I stayed in that, colony only three months. Would it not be advisable to insist upon sonic definite period Of fixed abode [„' Nc „. Zealand in the case of all assisted immigrants, or a, ■refund of tin amount paid in the event of their not residing in the Dominion for say, two vea,i-6, or half of it where there has. teen only one year's residence ?-I am, etC., J y August 27.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14926, 31 August 1910, Page 10
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