The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JULY 20, 1874.
Fotjb ships, with fifteen hundred immi-, grants, to one Province in the short space , <jfj|y«pk should ,surely be sufficient to, meet all the demands for labor. The ar- , rival of the Sussex'at Port Chalmers on* Saturday made the fourth within the week. Shis/wjU'Tunoyeany complaints on the score of immigrants not arriving in sufficient numbers, .and. if the labor market can bear this unusual strain it must have been very inadequately supplied before. Wefett-thaiif a. cry, will soon be raised that immigration is overdone. It can scarcely be expected that such a largo addition to the population, even in a prosporous Province like Otago, can be ablOirbedvery quickly. In the middle of winter there is sure to, be less demand, for labor*lihMatharvest time. The AgentGeneral appears to have acted up to his instructions to " send more immigrants/ if he bM ignored them in others. While the j
Southern Provinces were clamouring for more immigrants during harvest time and throughout the summer they were arriving in mere driblets. It is fortunate, per-, haps that Parliament is in session, because the Government will be able to meet the possible difficulty arising from this large influx of population, by changing the destination from Otago to some Province more urgently in need of pppu-' lation.v A,difficulty .may,«be expected, because recent advices from Dunedin stated that of those already arrived numbers:of: married couples with families were still in barracks unable to find engagements. Should there be amongst the fifteen hundred new comers the usual proportion of the vagrant and criminally disposed which has, characterised the passengers by previduS'Bnip'sfsuch as the Asia, a larger police force will be an absolute necessity in Otago ; possibly an addition to the gaol accommodation and the judicial staff. :'i?.'.:■: ::jt
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1730, 20 July 1874, Page 2
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303The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JULY 20, 1874. Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1730, 20 July 1874, Page 2
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