AN EMIGRANTS RETURN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9080, 2 May 1908, Page 3

AN EMIGRANTS RETURN.

DISSATISFIED WITH NEW ZEALAND.

Over the signature "Truth" the following letter appeared in tho "Morning Leader" on March 20th: —"Like' many others, I have been thinking very seriously about emigrating. I have gone through the Government handbooks on Canada and New Zealand, ar,d taking all things into consideration, decided upon the latter. I thought of going in for dairy-farming, and expected to get land suitable for pasture fairly cheap, judging from the prices given in the handbook. A returned emigrant, however, strongly advists anyone to stay in England. He says that the prices of land given in the handbooks and oth«=r particulars are inaccurate. The land is poor, and no good for farming, and, instead of being cheap, it i° quite the revers". Prices of provisions are high, and, although they say that New Zealand could supply tl;e world, they cannot supply themselves, and have to buy potatoes from America. He adds: 'The country atj present is overdone, and even worse than in England. I saw more poverty and slums in proportion to the population than in this country. This applies to the principal towns and neighbourhoods of the North Island.' " Such allegations as these says (lie London correspondent ot the Auckland "Herald," are doing New Zealand a lot of harm.