MANGAPAI. — EMPLOYMENT OF IMMIGRANTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2681, 19 February 1866, Page 4

MANGAPAI. — EMPLOYMENT OF IMMIGRANTS.

A liEtper from, our Mangapai correspondent, dated February 16, contains some strictures on our contemporary's remarks of the sth, in reference to the employment of immigrants in the Mangapai district, which we refrain f rom publishing. He proceeds to give the following statement, which, however, we willingly insert in our columns : — "The facts are in short these : The men had at first admittedly been employed under rather inexperienced direction. During that time incessant complaints were made through your columns and more directly. They were then removed from where they were working and placed elsewhere, and under other superintendence. To that removal and improvement of work the memorial forwarded to you, as well as to your contemporary, referred ; and the words italicised therein by the Herald were, to its own knowledge, not consequent of the effects of a newspaper which the men had not seen nntil within a fortnight of their ceasing work. The scene of idleness referred to was very naturally explained by the men, but their explanation was not given publicity to, as had been the attack. We can now, I am glad to say, laugh at a little occasional virulence from that quarter, as for the past four months, notwithstanding the attacks on it, our district has acquired more, both in new settlers and productions, than for any like period of its existence as a settlement."