MORE IMMIGRANTS.
THE ARAWA'S CONTINGENT. By tho Arawa, yesterday," thcro arrived from England 270; immigrants -for all ports, including 72 whose'i passages'have been dofrayed by the Government, Sixty of tho third-class passengers, including ,22 assisted: immigrants, came to Wellington'.'''- 1 The men :uid women whom the/Government- has helped to • immigrate, bring capital the aggregate, it is. computed,, to'over £3000. Ono farmer, who intends to settle m the ■North Island, will start with £1525; as-.a -nest-egg.; ■ ■■■ ■ • The immigrants ate ( generally of a very good stamp. Taking.ithe-',members' of- tho. assisted class right through,'_ farm labourers and domestic servants ;are in a large majority, but the Wellington.contingent, including non-assisted imnugrnnts contains an uij. usual proportion of. ot'fier trades, carpenters, wheolwrignts, turners and titters, brick-] layers, painters, and iron-workers, all calling for employment on tlie L..buur Department yesterday. .'. Tho Department'does.iinot expect any dilßv culty in hndiiiK situations for the new-com-ers, except, perhaps, in .tho case of the farm labourers, for whom plioes are loss plentiful owing to tho check giv.;n ito the .dairying industry by the drought- " ";'-'v
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 6
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174MORE IMMIGRANTS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 6
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