IMMIGRATION.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 8 June 1872, Page 2

IMMIGRATION.

Thtc following' remarks are from a leading" article in the " Evening- Post " : —' In all the versatile devices of the Government for obtaining- immigrants, we find no indications of any attempt or desire to attract employers as well as workmen We do not hear uf any gentlemen, or clergymen, or capitalists, among the Scandinavians who have arrived on our shores, and proceeded to clear roadsfur us. We are not aware whether Mr. McLeod expects to induce British North Americans of any of those classes to take up their abode in New Zealand. Dr. Featherstone, they say, is now gone to the Highlandsto look up likely immigrants, who are at present living in a state of ignorance, enforced idleness, and comparative destitution. Is he taking any pains—do his instructions enjoin him —to hold out inducements to some of theLairds to accompany their expatriated clansmen ? Are Messrs. Birch, Farnall, and Beaton so instructed ? Even if they are, do they possess the necessary qualifications for preaching a colonist crusade among personsof the higher class as respects education-,, honourable character, and the means of giving workmen employment ? Is Colonel Fielding'sAssociation going to send leaders as well as mere hewers of wood and drawers of water ? This part of the question is, by no means, to be lightly set aside-. The success of the whole immigration project depends upon it. So long as the Government is the only employer there will be a constant demand for artificial employment by means of public works of an unremunerative character, and far exceeding in costliness and extent the existing wants of" Ifehe community.'