RUSSIANS IN NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13455, 4 June 1907, Page 5

RUSSIANS IN NEW ZEALAND

"A PINE COUNTRY TO LIVE IN." [BT TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] [ Wellington, Monday.. Two Russians were present at the strangers' tea at the Y.M.C.A yesterday, and expressed themselves deeply grateful.for the welcome accorded them. One, the son of a merchant of St. Petersburg, is a clerk, and the other is a tailor. Asked 1 why they had been induoed to leave Russia-, they replied that it was for reasons mainly "political." The whole country was- in such a state of disorder that comfortable ; living was practically impossible. When they had made up their minds to :< leave they spent sometime in considering what country they would emigrate to." The- majority ;of Russian emigrants, aided by the immigration facilities of Canada and the United States, have invariably gone to those countries, but these two Russians considered there would be great difficulty in getting work in either Canada or the United States, owing to the number of their countrymen who were daily leaving for those countries, and they decided to go further afield. Hearing New Zealand spoken of from one end of Russia to the other as the " working man's paradise," and an ideal place to live in, they resolved that that was a oountry worth going many miles to see. ' '.'.-'. -.;":.'■■;■,.." I They are very pleased with New Zealand, and considered it a fine country to live in. One of them has already found work as a tailor, but the other, who is a clerk, and well educated, has not yet obtained employment. ' ' ' '