IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE
WELSH MINERS FOR WESTPORT. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, March 10. More than 100 English workmen arrived at Auckland by the Rangitata from London. Most of them are carpenters, but there are also a fairly large number of Welsh miners, who are going to Westport, to work in the coalmines there. The larger party consisted of carpenters and builders’ labourers, and among them were Englishmen. Scotsmen, and Irishmen. A number stated that they had been persuaded to come to the country by one of two reasons. They had either heard of conditions in the Dominion from tradesmen who had only recently come to the country, or else they had decided that New Zealand was worth “prospecting,” because of what they had read in English newspapers. Some of the ca.rpenters are under contract to the Government, and expect to be assigned to the housing scheme. Others have come out to see if conditions are as good as they have heard them 10 be.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 March 1939, Page 5
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