CAUTION TO EMIGRANT PRINTERS.

Saturday Advertiser, Issue 29, 29 January 1876, Page 15

CAUTION TO EMIGRANT PRINTERS.

{To the Editor of the Printers' Register.) Sin,—l see it mooted in some of our Colonial journals that it is the intention of the New* Zealand Government to offer free emigration to a large number of printers. The question was first introduced by an M.H.R., who happens to be the proprietor of a large printing office in Christchurch, and who, no doubt, wishes to see the wages of compositors reduced—and this effected by introducing to the Colonies a great number of printers, half of whom must of necessity be idle during six months of the year. If it should be the intention of any English printer to leave his home for the land which is said to “ tiow with milk and honey,” let him gird up his loins and prepare to work for from £2 10s to £3 per week, and pay 8s per week for a two-roomed cottage, 25s per week for board and lodging, 4M for a 2 lb. loaf, 2s per lb. for butter, and Od for a glass oil beer. This is the busiest time the printing trade experiences in the Colonies, and the last news from Christchurch and Dunedin showed that a large number of comps were hanging about the different offices, glad to get an hour or two of " grassing.” This, combined with the fact that during the last two or three years a large number have abandoned the trade and devoted their attention to other pursuits, must be very encouraging (?) to intending emigrants. Hoping that English printers will take the advice of one of tneir brethren in the art and stay at home, I beg to remain, your, &c., Coloxial Comp. Wanganui, N.Z., Aug. 23, 1875.