STREAM OF IMMIGRATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13926, 7 December 1908, Page 5

STREAM OF IMMIGRATION.

THE ARAWA'S PASSENGERS,

A DESIRABLE CLASS.

[BY T£LBGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION'.]

Wellington, Sunday. Tire Arawa, which arrived this morning, brought 330 passengers, of whom 218 were in the third-class. 01: these 129 were assisted immigrants, 20 being farmers and six farm labourers. There were also 13 domestic servants. Thirty-five of the assisted immigrants were children under 12 years of age.

The combined capital possessed by those assisted by the. Government is £1769.

FORTHCOMING ARRIVALS.

The' flow of immigrants from England to New Zealand continues in a steady stream. All outward-bound direct steamers from England are booked up in the third-class until the end of the year. The Rimutaka, which sailed on October 29, will bring a shipload of immigrants from London, and the Wakanui left a day or two later with another shipload, including a great contingent of domestic servants. The last two batches of assisted immigrants despatched from England were very favourably reported on by the inspectors at London and Liverpool. The former stated that he was asked by the port health officials whether the New Zealand regulations had been made more stringent, so struck were they by the physique and general standard of the selected immigrants for the Dominion. The inspector at Liverpool remarked in his report that judging by the quality of the immigrants going to New Zealand, the coming race in that Dominion would become the pick of the British Empire.

By the F.-H.-S. liner Morayshire, which left Liverpool on October 17, aud is expected to reach Wellington about Thursday next, 150 immigrants are coming out to New Zealand. Comparatively few young children are included, while all but 46 of the travellers are male*. Only one woman describes herself as a domestic, though there are two or three dressmakers and a shirtmaker on board. Among the men are 15 farmers, throe farm labourers, one dairyman, one gardener, nine labourers, 15 mechanics, six miners, and a representative of several, other callings. The largest number (55) is booked for Auckland, though that for Wellington is only three less. For Port Chalmers there are 18, for Lyttelton 13, for Napier five, and for Westport four. Othere are going to Greymouth and Dunedin. The bulk of the immigrants, or 86, are English, while there are also 57 Scotch, five Irish, and two Welsh folk on board. A small proportion only are assisted by the Government to pay their passage money.