NEW COLONISTS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 764, 29 December 1908, Page 4

NEW COLONISTS.

THE TAINUI'S CONTINGENT. The Tainui brought with her some 337 third-class passengers. The whole of the stern part of the vessel was set apart for their accommodation, and every consideration that was possible was given in the matter of providing air space, lighting and ventilation. The immigrants are on the whole a very good class (says the N.Z. Times) hailing chiefly from the agricultural areas of England. Ono of them, a farmer from Norfolk, has come out to join a brother in a dairy farming venture in the Oroua district, some thirty miles inland from Feilding. . "There's a lot of us here," he said, indicating his fellow passengers with his thumb, "bursting to get alongside the cow. We are most of us sorry to leave England, but from what . those who have gone before us say, we have got more chances here. They tell us it will be a struggle for the first twelve months. Many here on board reckon on getting into harness at once. A number of them are married couples, who fancy they can work together, the husband looking after the horses and stable and the wife undertaking the cooking. From what I hear of them on board they are a pretty willing lot." Another typical specimen is a big rotund Yorkshireman with red cheeks i and a voice and manner characteristic of North Country heartiness and energy. "I like Wellington right up to the nines," he explained. "I have come out to do a bit of cattle farming if that old Land Department of yours will only let me have a tidy acre or two. I have got a wire and family on board, and we are all keen to get out to the farms. We've left the frying-pan behind us," he added with a nod, "and. we are not looking for any fire out here, I can tell you. ' The passengers were all delighted with the ship and had a happy time. Hardly a day passed without some form of sports, and as long 'vojuges go, the voyage was not marred by. any of those unhappy incidents which even the sea cannot be disassociated with. The Tainui brought with her, out of the 337 third-class passengers, 193 whose passages were assisted. The | latter bring with them capital totalling £2855, and are classified as I follows: Farmers 32, farm labourers i 13, fruit farmers 2, domestics 43, 1 housekeepers 4, miners 5, gardeners 3, nurses 1, cooks 1, wives joining their husbands 10. i ■ ——————