DAY BY DAY.

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DAY BY DAY.

Views differing greatly from those

Right Kind of Immigrant.

usually accepted on immigration and labour conditions in New Zealand were expressed at the conference of dele-

gates of Chambers of Commerce at Wellington this week by Pastor H. M. Ries (Dannevirke) who said they ought to be careful what class of emigrant they got out. What they ought to do was to encourage their own young men and women to do the work. The conditions should be made satisfactory first. There was any amount of machinery to do the work that had to be done for the prosperity of the Dominion. Instead of bringing out unnecessary labour in men and women they should try to get the boys and girls to do the work here. The girls had shown what they could do during the war. He did not think, personally, that the right class of suitable people would come out, but rather it would be the unsuitable ones, the spendthrifts and wasters. The reasons why the good people would not come out was that, in his opinion, the conditions at Home were far better than out here. Girls could make mor ' money than they could here, apd get more for it, and so could young men.