NEED FOR IMMIGRATION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6361, 1 November 1921, Page 2

NEED FOR IMMIGRATION

MAKING TJIF DOMINION A NATION

EMPIRE RLI LDINO

The nccosil v l'"i tile, elleoiirageli)elll ot immigration ava- ml erred to a), the annual mecliiig o) lhe Wellingfon Central Chamber of Commerce by the president . Mr A L. HniA.

There arc sonic, he remarked, who ad. vcoated that immigration should bo stop, ped because of ibe, passing financial clomh Such nioa were not. Empirebuilders, and their viewpoint would never make our Dominion the nation mliei-s believed it was destined to Da. For defence purposes alone we must have immigration,.and in afar creator decree than hitherto. ,We had no right to tins if we did not, attempt, to populate it. 'the heavy harden (1 taxation and other prevadinc dillkv.iltiesall placed the necessity for immigra.lfan beyond dispute. It with a progressive policy ol immigration we coaid arrange. fur the invvsuneiii of IJritish capita.!, «e would be entering j a period when we would lie commencing | t i deveF.ip niir richly endowed country j in real earnest. I