COMERS PER S.S. SOMERSET.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1333, 10 January 1912, Page 4

COMERS PER S.S. SOMERSET.

WILLING TO WORK-AT ANYTHING.

"A body of hard-working men," was the phraseology in which tho immigrants by tho Fedoral-Houldor-Shire liner Somerset svero described yesterday by someone, who had noted the now arrivals en route,. Ihoy aro mostly general labourers and trades•V "reporter, who held conversation with some of them yesterday, learned that, in the majority of cases, the immigrants wcro coming to the Dominion because they had friends or relatives, here. Anything which they had heard of tho conditions of labour in New Zealand had been obtained from friends. One new arrival stated that, though ho had tried hard in Glasgow, he had been unable, to get a handbook on New Zealand. The shipping agonts there vero looking for emigrants, but they wanted them for Australia, and fhcro were- largo numbers regularly going to Australiavery large in comparison with tho numbers leaving for New Zealand. Domestic sen-ants for this country were, however, being eagerly inquired for all over England and Scotland, fq they said. "I understand," said an immigrant, "that tliero is plenty of work here for anyone uot afraid of bodily labour." The reporter replied that that was apparently tho case. "Well, two miners were Knapped up here before they left tho ship (his morning" added the immigrant,'with a hopeful look..