IMMIGRATION.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2789, 28 May 1921, Page 5

IMMIGRATION.

(To the Editor.) Sir,— Your remarks are well-timed. Ts> encourage immigration when we •re obliged already to “make” work lor unemployed is not wise. Ask onv employer what lie wants immigrants for, and watch bis face. His idea is that be will gt*t his workmen eli caper. That’s bis error! Wages here are not regulated by supply a.nd demand, and an influx of immigrants would only mean a logger “labour” :iud lii'a ii. ■ r tiixatiuiii of proper- «.**! pvopW-. *\sk tin ailvoeato ol imniisrat* : on what i-lass of moil ho wants. Coal minors? Why. tho minors, wo liavo won't work, ami aro only waiting to soo how tho ooal strike at Homo turns out so that tliov may striko hero attain. Kami hands? Ark any 1 arm or ! llow- ran they keep tlxir mon on whom work and stock an- >o low? I can qtrrto understand that laioland, when the Bishops moot and implore tluir ilot-k to *' fill tin-t-radios" and not commit “rare sr.ilide," while the Morning Host deplore* • -over-population,” is in a very lioiit plaiv: but if she will so on breedings men she cannot lord, it is not our plan' to aooept her imdi's'rlilt s. 1 shall be told that we shall • se.hi t" oilr immifiraul s. 1 rep’s that no selection is possible. No Government aoe.it can possibly tell if a man is tin sort we want. Tin- more absolute a waster he is, 'tile mors Ids friend, want to be rid of him, and the more stoutly his undies and aunts aiul Hu- local polii-cmart will swear ho IS the very man for New Zealand. No. Sir! “Our own fish-jruts in owr own M'a-nu'ws’’. 1 am, »to.. ‘FABIAN.’