OSWESTRY GRANGE'S PASSENGERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 11

OSWESTRY GRANGE'S PASSENGERS.

(From Our Ovtn Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, January 29. Among the passengers by the Oswestry Grange, due here in about three weeks from the West of England, ar.e a large number of farmers and farm labourers. Of the former class there are 22 so described, while of the latter there- are five. Genera l labourers include six. The recently averted railway strike may be responsible fcr tho , presence aboard of five railway men of ; Various branches. There are two gardener*, two dairymen, one forester, one nurse, three ' painters, one van boy, cne brass-fin i=her. | one architect, one lawyer, one shopman, one j salesman, five clerks, two cabinet-makers, one ' plumber, one carter, one iron-turner, cue boot repairer, one miner, one grocer, one | hairdresser, one shipmaster, one joiner, one watchmaker, one ironmonger, one butth^ l , one cycle-fitter, 'one commercial, and, s-ad to say, only three domestics, one of whom is married. The great majority of the "* immigrants are Engli^ii. but there arc a few Scotch and Irish as well. The passengers are fairly evenly distributed between i the four chief ports. [