ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 4 March 1909, Page 5

ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.

PRIME MINISTER AND THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.

SHIPPING COMPETITION

[press association.! DUNEDIN, March 3. The Prime Minister has received a reply "from the High Commissioner relativetto assisted immigrants, stating t'hat-'they are strictly limited to farm workers, female domestic workers, and those nominated by friends in New Zealand. The shipping companies were- anxious to obtain passengers. ?Mr Hall-Jones was making inquiries whether any reduction in passages outside those dealt with by the High. Commissioner is granted. He did TMtbiiiesitate to inform unsuitable persons of the position in the New Zealand labour market. Sir JosepVWard stated that he was cabling too the shipping companies informing Uhem that anything in the chape of a general selection of unsuitable persons 'for absorption in the Dominion should be prevented. He did not tMrik that there was any chance of free -passages for domestics.