FIFTY YEARS AGO
SYSTEM OF IMMIGRATION What seems to have been a highly successful system of immigration in operation SO years ago is described as follows in the New Zealand Herald of May 29, 1886: •'Notwithstanding the cry of depression the stream of nominated immigrants is well kept • up. The parties here have to pay £lO down for each adult, the classes nominated requiring to be farming people, married or single, and single women who are domestic seiwants. Tradesmen and mechanics can only be nominated subject to the nominators giving substantial guarantees for constant employment on arrival, and then only in special cases, with the sanction of the Minister for Immigration. The £lO-pays for all charges in England, outfit, bedding, etc., on shipboard and entitles the parties nominated to passage by direct steamer. "This clas£ of immigration is found to be the very best possible, and is leading to the introduction of a superior class of immigrants. Colonists do not pay £lO a head to bring out the drones and 'bad eggs' among their relatives in the Mother Country, but rather friends who will be a source of strength and a credit to them."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22431, 29 May 1936, Page 8
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194FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22431, 29 May 1936, Page 8
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