AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1766, 30 October 1883, Page 2

AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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TUESDAY, OCT. 30, ISSJ

Tin: of our immigrants has notbeenkoptuptothcproperslamUrcl of laic, if w c may lake .some of the new chums we li.ivc mot as fair samples. Whether it is that our Agent-Onoral is> too much taken up with Now duinca to attend to the work of selecting immigrants, or whether there is something in the sea air which tends to deteriorate the English labourer, we know not, but it is quite clear that we do not get our moneys worth. If the Agent-General is too much engrossed with his other duties, we should see to it that he is provided with an efficient assistant ; or if the ozone is proved to have a demoralising tendency, we might perhaps be able to arrange to bring theira migrants out frozen in the ships' refrigerating chambers. Tf some such expedient be not resorted to, we shall soon have more rubbish on our hands than a young community like ours can properly attend to. A goodly proportion of the people sent out to us within the past few months can be of no possible use in a new country. Many of the male specimens we have come, across will perhaps find a congenial corner in our large towns, where, free from toil and care, they will expatiate loudly on the badness of the ■ times", and the lowness of the wages, but they are no more fitted for honest labour than a member of the porcine species is to fly in the air. I A number of the genus we refer to j may have been seen lately making ! their way towards Auckland. One of llie&e men, who had come down from Ovford, was interrogated by a representative of this journal, and in answer to enquiries, said he was " not going to hang about a railway job for eight bob a-day, and be bossed about by four bosses." Certainly not ; the bosses should have paid him to look on, while they, tyrannical minions as they are, put their awn shoulders to the wheel. There is something very ludicrous about this ; but it lias its serious side as well. Much as wo require amusement, as a relief to the labours of the day, we cannot afford to pay such a high price for ifa'r whistle. There is plenty of work in the district; the railway contractors are advertising for navvies, and are offering good wages, but they require, and deserve good men for their money. Such useless creatures as are many of those now landing on our shores, will only swell the ranks of Mr Garrard'd army, and are of no conceivable use to the eokmy.