IMMIGRATION.
To the Editor. Sir, —I have read with interest the letters of a “New Zealander” and “Southlander.” I am sure that every statement of “Southlander’’ is correct and just. A “New Zealander” must be suffering from jealousy. I think it an insult to the “old pioneers” to talk of the immigrant as he does. After all we are all descendants of that brave band of men and women who first came to these shores, and the present immigrant would do the same if called upon to do so. He also says the New Zealander has more brains from the “Homies”; that may be, but it is quality and not quantity that is needed. We are immigrants; my husband worked his passage .out to New Zealand a few years ago. When he left the ship at Port Chalmers he had £2 earned as wages. Since then he has never asked for a job, or done a New Zealander out of one. He has always been offered work and not at less wages either. Of course we have got on by dint of hard work and thrift.—l am, etc., AN ENGLISHWOMAN *
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Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 9
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190IMMIGRATION. Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 9
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