THE CORINTHIC'S IMMIGRANTS

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 51, 28 February 1906, Page 4

THE CORINTHIC'S IMMIGRANTS

CHIEFLY FARMERS AND LABOURERS. •': (By Telegraph.—Own Corm^rt^q WELLINGTON, Tuesday. One hundred and eighty-five passe* gers for New Zealand were landed tb Wellington yesterday afternoon by"the steamer Corinthic from London. There is evidence of a wise selection, «n the part of the colony's agents in London shown in the statement of occupations set iput ...in.-'.,the Board of Trade regulations." .The class chiefly represented is the fanning class, \yhich comprises oyar.thirty.tf the total, the nearest to this "claßsin total being labourers, who total.ten. Clerks number eight and miners »vifn,'.ii;Ho nationalities of the immigrants >ifs'dis. tinctly British and English predominate largely. The total is ma'de^ty'of one Hungarian, one American, eight irish sixteen Scotch, and 159 English, _ be< ing adult females and 112 Bale j,

An " Evening Post" report jittered from some of the passengers that they had been impressed with'- jivouraWc news of this country, and hid come out here in the belief that they woiildtetter themselves, the trade, being in poor condition, in England, at present^.and work far from, plentiful. .. Afatm labourer had heard from a friend whbpreceded him to New Zealand a. yeat;,ag3 that employment in his line.wae'.'Jo he easily found in New. Zealand.: "The " Post" representative was the youthfulhess of a great.many'Sfthe immigrants. -The oldest makv jtniai. grant is only 52, and the great bulk oi the males under 30 years "