50,000 IMMIGRANTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16815, 5 June 1926, Page 7

50,000 IMMIGRANTS.

ABSORBED SINCE 1920. (Times Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The Minister of Immigration (the Hon. W. Noswortliy), in commenting on the immigration system, slates that New Zealand has done remarkably weU in her efforts to relievo the Mother Country of some of her surplus population burdens. Since 1920, no fewer than 50,000 immigrants had been absorbed in New Zealand, and on a population basis that record compared more than favourably with what the other Dominions had carried out. At the present time the quota was 1000 a month. Tiie Minister spoke favourably of ttie success attending the English public school boy scheme of immigration. Of the 820 juveniles who had arrived in the Dominion since 1924 to be trained as farmers, 395 were public school boys, 218 were boys brought out under Salvation Army supervision, 176 were Flock House boys, 12 were brought out under the auspices of the Church of England authorities, and 12 were Flock House girls. Mr Noswortliy said that the continued success of ilia public school boy scheme largely depended on tiie support and co-opera-tion accorded it by the landholders generally. There were probably some farms where perhaps more than one boy could be usefully employed, and the Department was confident that the future development of so fine a scheme would not be endangered by any lack of interest and co-operation on the part of the farmers lor whose benefit it was inaugurated.