ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14188, 11 October 1909, Page 5

ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.

; A YEAR'S RECORD. [BY TELEGRAPH. correspondent.] ' Wellington, Saturday. The report of the Department of Immigration shows that for the year ended March 31 last ,4953 immigrants received passages at reduced rates. These were distributed over 47 trips of the several steamers coming to the Dominion, an average 'of 105 souls for each steamer. The capital of those who had been assisted amounted to £96,055, and in addition to this a few were in receipt of small incomes, which totalled to £462 a year. The number of souls that were nominated by relatives in the Dominion during the year was 2289, and the money received from the : nominators towards the cost of the passages amounted to £18,484. . The High Commissioner reports that during the past year the number of people going to Canada diminished, owing to discouraging reports, and, accordingly, the stream of people leaving the United Kingdom was diverted to other colonies, and of these we, no doubt, obtained a full share. Hence it happened that, starting with the s. s. Tonic, which left London for New Zealand in July, 1908, the passenger vessels for the Dominion have carried large numbers of full-paying passengers, who trusted that in a country like this they would find themselves in a better position than that which' they occupied in the United Kingdom. • '