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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1980, 16 January 1907, Page 3

If the Government, recognising the condition of the labor market, took energetic steps to secure the emigration from the United Kingdom oi suitable and desirable men, with families preferred, its action would, wo (states the Auckland Herald) think, be generally approved throughout the colony. For in the United Kingdom arc hundreds of thousands of our own countrymen who find it increasingly difficult to obtain employment, and who in many cases, arc being crowded to the wall by .the pressure of that mass of undesirable aliens which, by the folly of British statesmen, is being permitted to dispossess the British workman. At Home many have little hope of enough to eat and still less of a comfortable sufficiency, while in Now Zealand food is as plentiful as air and the prospect of a comfortable sufficiency is common to all industrious and thrifty workmen. The colour at the present time can safely receive every industrious man or woman who would come, with rensonable State assistance, and if pospority slackens and the present demand becomes less urgent, it will he cpiite easy to slacken off immigration simultaneously. For nobody would wish to dump workmen into a colony where employment did not await them any more than they can wish to sec industry restricted owing to lack of labor.

An effective method of storing potatoes lias been adopted by a halfcaste farmer at Pukovua, near Porirua. Mr G. H. Davies, one of the Maori enumerators, thus describes the settler's plan:—“Corner posts 17 feet apart one way and 5 feet the other were run into the ground. On these a frame was built 17 feet by 5 feet, 2\ deep, 4 feet above the ground. The bottom of the frame was floored with slabs some 2 inches apart. This was then covered with an inch or so of manuka scrub to prevent the potatoes falling through. The sides and end were enclosed by rails or battens nailed to the corner posts, so as to enclose, more manuka scrub, which was wattled in with a stay or two in the middle, let into the ground for extra stability and support to the structure. The potatoes were then stored therein—those that were selected for seed being placed in kits, and the whole covered with about six inches of loose fern. The explanation given i.was that the potatoes did not heat, and being fully exposed to wind and air, no matter how heavy it rained, they soon dried. I examined the potatoes and found them quite sound.