EMIGRATION FROM CANADA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 29, 15 November 1873, Page 9

EMIGRATION FROM CANADA.

Mr John M'Leod, who has been appointed by the Provincial Governmeats of Wellington and Otago aa Emigration Agent for the Provinces in Canada and Nova Scotia, has been visiting the Southland district lately A Southland paper says:-" We Lave been more accustomed to hear of the large numbers of immigrants absorbed by Canada than of any considerable number emigrating therefrom vet it appears however to be a fact that while 60,000 persons (it is computed) annually arrive in Canada, at least half as many find their wav thence to other regions, being moved presumedly by climatic influent ces. ' When Cauada is competing so much, against New Zealand for immigrants m the United Kingdom, what a splendid chance would not an Agent-General who was an able writer have of making capital in the columns of the homo papers of the fact that New Zealand was actually sending an emigration Agent to Canada. But New Zealand has to regret that she has not such a man— with the exception of Anglo-Australian, who does him homage in a paper more read in the colonies than at home, the whole home press ignores the A&ent General. There is another view of the question also. If hall of those who arrive annually m Canada leave for other countries " bein* moved presumedly by climatic influences," the vital statistics of New Zealand for 1872 show that there Jcaine to this colony by immigration over seas 10,?2o, while there was an emigration over seas of more than one half, viz., 5752. Climatic influence can hardly be presumed in the case of New Zealend, though laud laws may have to do with the matter. Canada is a go-a-head country, and is not likely to be beliiud wherever competition is concerned ; and New Zealaud may some day hare to pay for her temeiity in sending an agent to Canada by hiving a Canadian emigration agent in her midst. '