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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 932, 23 October 1879, Page 2

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In the course of a lecture delivered m England on New Zealand as a field for immigration, Mr Arthur Olayden said :— " Emigration has hitherto been looked upon too much as the last resort of. f the unfortunate. Broken down merchants, family scapegraces, younger sons who have failed to get into either the army or the church, and paupers of every degree of feebleness— these had too generally constituted the bulk of our human freightage to the colonies. He had sometimes thought while witnessing the disembarkation of a ship-load of emigrants at a colonial seaport, that those at Home .who weie responsible for the human freightage must have read across the portals of the colony, ' Rubbish shot here.' It was quite time that England began to realise that -her magnificent colonies were not mere refuges for the destitute, but fields of commercial enterprise worthy of the highest talent, and the utmost wealth she could command. Disposing of sundry objections to emigration, he explained to his audience that a too common notion obtained that m leaving England people turned their backs on civilization. In oppositidri to .this he arrayed various statistics as to the public schools m New Zealand ; the extent of telegraphic communication ; the miles of railway ; the postal conveniences ; the splendid Jbuildings, churches, etc., of Dutftdin, Chmtchurch, Wellington, and Auckland ; and the vast quantify of literature annually imported.; It was not barbarism jthat thejr were invited to, but an advanced civilization, and all the amenities of highly cultured society."