ARRIVALS BY THE ATHENIC.
' A VERY DESIRABLE CLASS.
Over '100 passengers "arrived by the, Athenio yesterday: morning, and-of these about 100.,"': were, -.assisted; immigrants. . An . officcr of the Labour Department. met the liowconiersi and lie reports that tllcy are & very desirable, class 'ilideedj their • ages running between '27 and 37.;' The nitijority have roliitives in Now Zealand* and they camo out to join husbands and .brothers, who reported optimistically, of life and. work .in ; this part of the world. Somo' of them 1 had employment waiting'for them, and they went straight nway to their now homes. The , Department yesterday dispatched' three men' to Stratford and. two -to,' Daiinovirkc. There • were about a dozen domostics on the list, mid all have/.been'; placed;, witli the'exooption of three, who were referred to tho women's branch of the Department m Boulcott. Street. The majority of the male con-' t-ingent wero farmers; : Two farmers, who - are northward bound,-. brings each ■ £800. There were also a iiumber .of dairymen and ; farm labourers. Tho Combined" capital of tho 1 new arrivals is; a littlo short of £3000 ;l
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 7
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181ARRIVALS BY THE ATHENIC. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 7
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