IMMIGRATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 60, 3 May 1873, Page 8

IMMIGRATION.

The Government immigration scheme is acknowledged to be a failure, and it appears that the Provincial Government of Otago has succeeded in wresting the control and management j*f immigration to this Province from the hands of the General

*Bnly other people pay the cost. The public already pays twothirds of the cost of education, and now it is proposed that the same good natured, easy public should pay in addition one-third of the board and lodging of the sons of well-to-do people in the chief boarding school of the Province. The public, however, will hardly see the propriety of such generosity. But as we are anxious to help such illustrious lovers of learning as the gentlemen who have made this sapient suggestion, we would in our turn suggest to these gentlemen to imitate the bright example of our fathers, and open their homes to the poor scholars ; or, in the event of their not doing this, to establish by private munificence kospices for the cheap entertainment of students. Either course will prove their love of education very much better than an appeal to the public purse.