Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land Company — John Shaqi
Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land CompanyMatthew, Patrick
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Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land Company
Matthew, Patrick
New Zealand -- Emigration and immigration; Scots New Zealand Land Company
There will, no doubt, be servants or helps in New Zealand, and need
for them, too, in some cases, independent, even, of what the natives
will supply. But any scheme of emigration to encourage the system of
master and servants to such an unnatural excess as to allot (as it
is said they propose) 75 per cent of the whole price of the lands
to carry on the _servant-trade_ from Britain to New Zealand, would
be attended with the most injurious consequences, not only to the
employment and civilization of the natives, but to the prosperity of
the settlement, if it did not ruin it altogether. Servants or helps
should, like every thing else, be left to the salutary direction of
demand and supply,--that is, the trade should be left entirely free,
without exclusive tax or bounty, provided, indeed, it shall not be
thought _contra bonos mores_, and prohibited. And if Government or the
Legislature interfere, it ought surely to be to encourage, by affording
means of transport to that class which experience has proved to be the
most advantageous,--in fact, the only class by which free colonization
can be successfully carried on,--_working small capitalists_, and which
the system of master and servants, attempted to be achieved by the
“sufficient price,” would do much to obstruct.
FOOTNOTES:
[12] We would recommend investment in new lands as incomparably
superior to investments in savings’ banks, as affording far better
security and higher profits, and would urge those who have money in
savings’ banks to withdraw it, and purchase shares in the Scots New
Zealand Land Company. The effect of a proper system of colonization and
the exclusion of bad subjects, has been recently exemplified in Russia.
A number of working small capitalists, solicited and received the grant
of a desolate hilly portion of country from the Emperor. They divided
this into portions of about 60 acres of tillage land, with a suitable
portion of hill pasture to each family, allowing no one to enter the
community, unless he possessed a certain capital, and totally excluding
lawyers and priests. The success has been great beyond all precedent.
No quarrels, high morality, industry, economy,--the country cultivated
like a garden,--plenty to all.
[13] Certificates are forthcoming and favourable in proportion to the
worthlessness of the subject. The friends are active in procuring the
necessary certificates of character to those they are ashamed of, and
wish at the antipodes.
LAND PROPERTY RIGHT.
Right to land property is of two kinds, _National_ and _Individual_.
Both are founded on _Utility_, that is, the advantage of mankind.
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