MR. HOLLOWAY ON NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4217, 25 September 1874, Page 3

MR. HOLLOWAY ON NEW ZEALAND.

The following letter from Mr. C. Hollowly is published in the Laborers' Union Chronicle of July XI ; “ Southbridge, near Christchurch, Province of Canterbury, Now Zealand, May Gth, 187 X. —Sir,—l find that the mail will not leave for England for another day or two, and since mating my last X have learnt from a telegram from England that you have had a lock-out, and that it is spreading. I am sorry that the English farmera don’t know any better than to look-out their men, and try by so doing to starve them to submission, when the men are only asking for fair and reasonable wages. I just write a line suggesting that you visit those districts where my fellow-laborers are lockedout, and just lay before them the advantages hold out by this prosperous Colony to any sober and industrious men to come and settle down in any of these Provinces, where they will bo sure to meet with remunerative employment and bo. recognised as men, and not as slaves. What I would advise you to do is to draft out five or six thousand of those laborers, and send them out to the Colony of New Zealand at once. The class of men wanted out bore are ■good, sober, industrious, and persevering men —farm laborers ; they must be men ; young men as ploughmen and shepherds, young married couples, with not more than two or three children, will find good work at once, at liberal wages. Clerks, porters, and those of the genteel fraternity, are abundant out hero ; there is no demand for them. , But any number of good farm laborers can find employment at good wages. Just place yourself in communication with the Agent-General, and make arrangements for sending' out at - once,

say two thousand to the Province of Otago, two thousand to the Province of Canterbury, and two thousand to the Provinces of Wellington and Auckland, but be sure and send the right class, and I am persuaded they will never repent coining. Further, they can do with a good ship load of servant girls m each of the above Provinces. Try and see if yon can’t secure a good number of girls—girls who have been trained to household duties—say five hundred for each of the above Provinces ; that would make a total of two thousand girls. They have nothing to feai ; they are well taken care of during the voyage. They are well provided for here on landing m the emigration barracks till they are engaged, and they can command good wages, and if they keep their eyes open can marry well, . . . I am disgusted with the cruel, hard-hearted, close-fisted farmers of England. If those poor men at home only saw how the men live out here, they would say farewell to Old England, and leave these slave-drivers to cultivate their lands themselves.—From yours truly, 0. Holloway. P.S. —Send only healthy and industrious men.” In its introduction to the letter, tbe Chronicle says;— -“Mr. Holloway is a highly respectable and intelligent man, and his statements will be accepted by those who know him best as most reliable and trustworthy. We may add, for the information of the men in the lock-out districts, that absolutely free emigration is now offered them to this Colony, and the whole of their number may at once take their departure. We shall be astonished if, with this splendid prospect before them, a single locked-out laborer is left in England after ten days from this date."