VALUE OF IMMIGRATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1923, Page 7

VALUE OF IMMIGRATION.

“Ab an author. I am specially interested in immigration,” the speaker went on. “In Britain we look to the Dominions to absorb that part of our population which can be useful to you. I am quite convinced that this is a land of plenty, compared with the Old Country, and it seems to me that the time lifts arrived for the more daring intellectuals to initiate, even in New Plymouth, a campaign to develop Imperial immigration, to increase the population thereby, and so solidify the Empire In such a way that it may stand foursquare to all the winds that blow. “At the moment I am travelling round the coast on the steamer Devon, getting an insight into the export trade in mutton, butter, cheese, and wool,” the visitor explained. “This voyage has impressed me with the fact that on the merchant marine the commercial prosperity of New Zealand largely depends, and it . is refreshing to note that in the various companies which operate New Zealand ships, yon have organisations of which you have every reason to be proud, especially in view of the fact of the failure of the American merchant marine and similar organisations, who believe that shipping is a thing that can be run by a band of amateurs at the end of a telephone.”