IMMIGRATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 19, 23 June 1913, Page 5

IMMIGRATION.

A MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. x Per Press Association. Wellington, June 21. I In the course of a statement to a Post reporter on the subject of immigration, the Hon. H. D. Bell intimated that new methods had been adopted of bringing before the English people the advantages which New Zealand offers to intending immigrant*, and for inviting and obtaining applications for assisted passages from suitable immigrants who might otherwise be induced to go to Canada, Australia, or South Africa. It might be necessary to supplement the staff of the High Commissioner by the addition of one of more persons from New Zealand who knew the class of people required. The High Commissioner reported that he had been able to make entirely satisfactory arrangements with the shipping companies for space required during this next year. The Government had decided, where domestic servants could not afford to pay a portion of the passage money, that the Government will jxiv the whole on their undertaking to refund it by instalments. Similar con-, cessions were authorised in the ease of farm laborers. The Government would, by its London office, endeavour to be prepared to tender in New Zealand for farm laborers of experience and physically capable. It must be the business of farming communities to arrange and to satisfy the Government that labor so tendered shall find immediate and constant cmolnvment at a fair wage. The Hisrh Commissioner advised that to,ob- ' to. ■•■ biy* for New Zealand with anr farm training 15s a week and found must be offered to begin with.