NO EMIGRANTS WANTED

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3375, 15 November 1911, Page 8

NO EMIGRANTS WANTED

[OSE IN SOUTH AFRICA TO MAKE AN EXISTENCE BEFORE IMPORTING OTHERS. general Botha, visiting his constitucy of Losberg. South Africa, for the ;t time since lie was returned to the don Parliament, received a most coril welcome. [n reply to addresses he said the vernment in the near future would >ceed with a great agricultural pol- , the first step in which would be i settlement on the land of the peojs who had drifted into the towns, ere they were unable to make a liv- ;. A system would be followed en:ing settlers eventually to become tprietors. He emphasised that only fse would be helped who wished to p themselves. Referring to immigration, he said he 1 not the least idea why the quesn was brought up. The Governnt had not departed from the policy ■I down in the programme of Nationt principles—namely, to enable those ■ the country to make an existence ore there was any question of anting a single man into South Africa, would carry out the programme, matter what storms it caused. He ; in favor of immigration, but at the .per time. When they got imimints, they should get good formers, loafers. le declared that the Unionists wantimmigration for the thickest popuh! parts of South Africa, as they ited more votes, and suggested that re was a very fine opening in a good t of the -xrantry, viz. Rhodesia, on eh the Unionists should fix their rntion.