IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING.
HORORATA BRINGING 689.,. ■ REACHES AUCKLAND TO-DAY. FOUR DRAFTS WITHIN MONTH. TOTAL OF 1643 NEW SETTLERS. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Hororata is due in Auckland from Liverpool at six o'clock this evening with 700 passengers. Of tho number 689 are nominated or assisted immigrants, including 30 domestic servants and over 50 farm workers. An elderly man, died en route, the cause being senile decay. The Hororata was specially fitted up with accommodation for 1000 passengers. It is proposed to complete the customs examination in the stream to-night and the vessel will berth at the Central Wharf early to-morrow morning. Immigrants booked for destinations south of Auckland will leave by special train at 8.40 o'clock to-morrow evening. Details of destinations are as follow:
Tho Shaw, Savill and Albion liner lonic, which arrived in Wellington from London yesterday morning, brought 364 nominated or assisted passengers. They include 19 domestic servants, 38 Salvation, Army boys and 19 public school boys. The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Remuera, which is clue in Auckland about March 5, is bringing 2?0 assisted passengers and tho Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Arawa, due in Wellington about March 9, has another 320. This gives a total of 1643 immigrants arriving within a month. The Salvation Army lads on the lonic will be placed on the Army's farm at, Putaruru. Among the steamer's passengers are five boys who will spend a year at the New Plymouth High School at the school's expense, and thereafter take up any profession for which they may best bo suited. This will be the first occasion on which such a scheme has been tried.
ChilMen. Women, dren. Tl. Auckland .. 94 76 68 238 Gisborne . . 7 4 9 20 Napier . , 20 17 12 49 New Plymouth .. 14 15 7 36 Wanganui K . 5 5 4 14 Wellington ... 57 52 34 143 Westport . . 9 9 8 26 Greyraouth 6 6 6 18 Lyttelton .. 28 18 14 60 Timaru , .> .. 5 5 0 10 Oamaru . ... 2 0 0 2 Duuedin 20 18 15 .53 Bluff «^ .. 9 9 2 20 Totals . . 276 234 179 689
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18947, 19 February 1925, Page 8
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349IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18947, 19 February 1925, Page 8
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