INTERESTING LETTERS.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 222, 10 December 1926, Page 2

INTERESTING LETTERS.

“PROSPECTS IN NEW ZEALAND.’’ • Sir, —I think you are right in directing attention in the “Press” of Monday. November 29, to the disgrace of towns respecting the prospects offering in New Zealand to the man of small capital and others, as expressed by Sir James Parr at the Imperial Industries Association luncheon in London, and of those who took part in the recent conference held in Auckland anent farming conditions in this country. The views of the speakers at that conference might give rise to the idea that the New Zealand farming industry is, if we might use a familiar phase, “going to the dogs”; whilst Sir James Parr’s view is that New Zealand “for the retired professional or business man, and for farmers with £lOOO or £2OOO capital is ideal.” Hence we might reasonably ask which view is correct, that of the men on the spot or the country’s representative thousands of miles away. If the former then we say the latter view is not justifiable nor justified, and therefore eondemnable as being misleading to people at the Home country. ’Further is it honourable to seek to induce men in the Old country with small capital to leave their country and come out to New Zealand with the J probability in front of them of losing their £lOOO or £2000? For such seems to be the possibility if farmers walking ofc their farms because of financial inability to carry on, is the case as has been related from time to time in the, newspapers of this country. I have the idea that the emigration propaganda in the Old Country on behalf of New .Zealand does not reveal “the truth, the whole truth, ami nothing but the truth,” and if my idea is well founded and I believe it is, then I say it., is high time that it lie rectified. "Within a few years, hard work secures the ownership of a small free-, hold farm, so Sir James Parr is reported to have said, and I think he ought to be called upon to verify that statement, and to say as to how many cases that has come to pass in New Zealand, especially in late years. I for one do not object to people coming out to this country so long as they are not wrongfully induced to do so. and come of their own account after the true state of affairs, and conditions in the country are made fully known to them. After this latter is truthfully done, then I say. “let them all come,” if they like to do so.-—Yours, etc., ‘ ‘ W.M. ’ ’