MIGRANTS WITH CAPITAL.

Wairarapa Age, 20 April 1927, Page 5

MIGRANTS WITH CAPITAL.

MANY PAYING THEIR OWN FARES. NEW ARRIVAL’S REPORT. AUCKLAND, April 19. As the system of nominated immigration will be stopped next month, it was interesting to note on the Ulimaroa yesterday several immigrants who had paid their passages to New Zealand, many of them at first saloon rates. The Ulimaroa brought a larger pc-rportion than any other mail boat that has arrived for some time. “There will certainly be many more c‘ us coming in this way,” remarked .one arrival, who is going to Napier and is one of a large company of unassisted immigrants whose departure for New Zealand was the outcome of long correspondence with friends in the Dominion. His companions supported his statement that the motive actuating a number of small farmers in Britain in seeing new outlets in New Zealand and other Dominions, was consequent on- the high surtaxes and the difficulty, owing to the high prices, of extending their holdings. At the •same time they, expressed 'themselves as most suspicious of the advertisements of the High Commissioner’s Office. “These may attract people who have no knowledge of conditions on the land;” said one man, “but it pulls no wool over our eyes, and we would not he here, nor would hundreds of people in our class be here, were it not that we have been in constant communication with New Zealand friends who are familiar with conditions in these parts”—(P.A)