IMPORTED LABOUR.
COST OF ASSISTED PASSAGES.
-24,585 AT £3 15/ PER HEAD.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day
Giving evidence before the Emp'ro Trade Commission to-day, Mr Eni'.in Smith (Under Secretary to the Immigration Department) said that from 19C4 tc 1912 24,585 assisted immigrants arrived in New Zealand, bringing capital to the total of £69,000. This cost the Government to assist them £91,000, or £3 15/ per head. Had the Government paid ths whole cost of passages it would have had to pay £196,000. Out of the 24,585 immigrants, over 3,000 were domestic servants and 4,602 farm labourers. The demand forfkibour was 861 men required in various industries, 1,8(54 women an! girls, and 216 boys; in -all 2,941. Out of these Wellington and Canterbury alone required 1,673. The Farmers' Union requirements were 3,000 farm labourers, 2,000 domestic servants, and 200 boys. In all it had been ascertained that over 6,000 workers were required.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 57, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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153IMPORTED LABOUR. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 57, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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