EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 84

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

(FHOM OXJB OWH COBUBSFOHBENT.) LONDON, Maroh 17. - The viiit of the New Zealand- football team to this ..country gave a iillip to emigration to New Zealand. During the stay cf the team in England the number pf applications for information with reference to the colony, .used to number from 80'" toT 100 each day. . Recently,' however, the High - Commissioner has issued a circular", 'which *' has been, free of advertisement^ charges,^ published in hundreds 'of uewepapers. 1 with ! the result that now from 200 to 250 fetters , ai*e received every morning at the London office of the New Zealand Government ; asking for information. This circular, which is an "authorised statement," is worded as follows : — " For many years the Government of New Zealand has adopted the far-seeing policy of encouraging suitable persona to come from this country, while at the same time taking steps to open up unoccupied lands by railways and roads, co that newcomers may be able to settle as cultivators > of the land. There can be no doubt of the success of this policy. New Zealand possesses a pleasant climate and fertile soil, not excelled by any other country in the world, for the profitable production of every description of grain, fruit, and for the rearing of sheep, cattle, and horses. New Zealand is eminently fitted, therefore, for small farming, and one of the results of the Government's policy is that every year a number of wage-earners take up land for farming and become their own masters. The High Commissioner for the colony has received a cablegram from his Government stating that in order to complete th© trunk line of railway in the North I=land -within the next three years, 1000 railway navvies are required, but that this "number of men are not at the moment to be had in New Zealand. To give suitable men an onportunity of sharing in the good prospects which this opening offers, the High Commissioner is ! authorised to extend the present system of reduced rate passages to good pick-and-ehovel men •without the necessary capital qualification, so that, subject to his being ( satisfied as to their character, health, and ' physique they can have passages to New Zealand for £10. This concession will be extended to their wives and children. The rate paid for piece-work to men of this clasg enables tbfim Jo earn from 6g to. 8s

per diem. There are occasional opportuni- ' ties given of even larger earnings, under the Government system of co-operative ccn- - tracts. It must be . understood that the ' Government, while' not guaranteeing em-:- • ployment, will see.that the men are offered,^ work,, and taken to it on their arrival in ■ the colony^ . It may be added v thafc there ;is, >■ '- a Government Labour Bureau -at Welling- 1 ' ton, which' has Bpme- 200 branches in vari- ' ou3 a parts pi «_ the * colony, and at i which .■ ■ , every., information , and, .assistance' •is "given - to' men on in New. Zealand.- Experi- » enced farm labourers are also in demand, and if approved by. the High Commissioner', will receive reduced- rate passages, 1 provided they can , land in;-New Zealand with nofc. less than five pounds X£b)." . ' -* - ■The'NeW Zealand Government now-is also offering to 1000 ' domestic, servants,- of 'pood health- and character, reduced passages without capital , And up -So, . .the present 200,. navvies have been accepted v on the same; termß for. Emigration, to <ho l " oolony. The, first bateh 7 left last week' by, the,-s.s. lonic. :j v ' *\:-.* 1" v- »' , > ■ • '- '/ Some' llo men axe , no^y- .employed, on -Vasr . ' Blackball railway -^orks," -which is being" ' -vigorously ; pushed on- witfy" >The ...putting- ' beyond the. road; '{s now nearly completed, » .and work, beyond, that' 'point: i* well" in \ hand.' •'.■v\ V " --;_., - : - r -]~ " ■ „ The <Y an ganui Education Board has ji:sfc-*~ received" a gift from' the- Government in ~< -the shape ' of a school ;building,^ which was' - erected in tbe Taranaki /district for tho N , Maori children, .'but has been found unnecessary. The Government will bear the cost . of removal and re-erection of th« eohool, which is to be placed on the Ohangai . road. " ' - „