THE CLASS OF IMMIGRATION AGENTS NEEDED.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 30, 22 November 1873, Page 9

THE CLASS OF IMMIGRATION AGENTS NEEDED.

('Tuapeka Times.') The motives of our immigration appointments are simply motives of personal friendship and of political partisanship. These motives are transparent in a lamentable degree. If we only enlist the British press in our favor, half the battle of colonisation is won. And none but a fluent and practical agent can do this. It ia absurd to suppose that one lecturer, even for the province of Otago, will be able effectually to influence the millions of England's inhabitants. An efficient agent would commune with himself : " It is true that wages have greatly increased at home : but it is also true that thousands of these wages men and women will never be freeholders ; and if wages are high, not merely may that wage elevation be temporary, but it is associated with taxes equally high, and with a liability to war with rival nations, from which the colonies are dove or Jess free. The latter have more elbow room, more broad acres. The career in the colonies is a more equal race 5 whereas the wage man at home is handicapped from the first. "We, in the colonies, have a better climate, and consequently better health, and we can therefore rear and enjoy better families. I will tell all this to the people of Europe. But how ? The means stands near me. They consist of the public platform and the mighty press. By pamphlets [ will address families ; by the daily newspaper I will address millions ; by the voice I will persuade more nillions." In this way a lecturer with sterling ability would, at the cud of twelve months, remove the prejudices which now are placed in the path of New Zealand immigration.