Home Immigration.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 266, 7 October 1884, Page 2

Home Immigration.

The following is an extract from a letter from a resilient of Great B« itain. which appears m the Waipawa Mail : — "I was much pleased at receiving the Waipawa Mail, containing yonr inaugural address . . . I agree with the most of it, but must take exception to that part m which you say you believe m a Land-tax instead of the Properiy-tax. I think you will find that if you are going to throw the bulk of the taxation on the land you will make a grievous mistake, as m the present condition of fierce competition m the agricultural produce markets of the world, do not believe that land can bear any but the lightest taxation. As far as wheat is concerned, India, which eight years ago; only exported to the extent of £300,000, last year exported to the amount of above eight millions ! This fact is causing the' great-' pst anxiety to Russia, America, Canada, and other wheat producing countries, as they do not see where it is going to end, as the wheat producing,, area itf Iriclia 1 is of vast extend/ and any amount of labour U firocurable at from fourperice to Sixpence aday ; besides which they liave all the most recently^; improved implements. 1* fail to see how your New Zealand farmers are going to compete with this, with youv high rate of" wages, greater distanceandproposedincreased taxation,, I may, say that nil of us here Had an intention of going to New Zealand, have given up the idea after r<he accounts we have seen m the papers of the growing jealousy., of property whi<*h seems to be. so strongly manifested among yon, and are turning our ey6s elsewhere. Mr -is going out by the Orient line to settle m Tasmania; he commands some £15,000, and was undecided alkmt going to New Zealand, but. Sir Julius Vogel's address to the East Coast electors, and an article m the Tituaru Herald settled the matter. If he sends a satisfactory account we fully intend to join him."