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2. The rate of wages of the employed are to be agreed on from time to time, or settled by some person to bo appointed by the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, but not to be less than five shillings per day often hours. 3. The employers will pay the passage money of the employed to New Zealand. 4. The employed to give the employers promissory notes for their passage money and expenses, payable to the employers or order on demand. 5. The employers to be at liberty to retain from the wages of the employed one-fifth of their amount, or any other portion that may be arranged for, until the promissory notes are paid, and for payment thereof. 6. Until the promissory notes are fully paid, the employed will work for the employers (unless released from this obligation, or unless they shall have so worked) for two years. 7. Whenever the promissory notes are fully paid, the employed are freed from their obligation to work for the employers. 8. The employers will provide the employed with work as«navvies or labourers or other like employment in New Zealand, on the terms herein mentioned, for a term of two years, except the right to be so employed has been forfeited by any of the means next mentioned. 9. All rights of the employed to continued work will be, in the option of the employers, forfeited by their incompctency or incapacity, insubordination, neglect or non-performance of duty, intemperance, breach of any law, or other misconduct, and thereupon the unpaid balance of the promissory notes will be payable. 10. The employed are to obey all lawful orders of the employers or their agents, and at the employers' expense to proceed to any parts of New Zealand, as directed, for the purposes of their work. I hereby acknowledge that I understand the above conditions, and agree to fulfil them, and to sail for New Zealand on or after the clay of Signature Address Date Medical Certificate. I hereby certify that I have examined the above-named applicant [and his wife and children] ; that to the best of my knowledge and belief, he [she, they] are in good health, and free from any bodily or mental defect likely to impair his [.her, their] efficiency as labourers. 1 also certify that he [she, they] have all had the small-pox, or been vaccinated, and is [are] entirely free from any disorder usually considered infectious or contagious. (To be signed by a Physician or Surgeon.) Address and date. N.B. —Special arrangements will be made in the case of married couples and children. Supplied by John Brogden and Sons, 5, Queen Square, Westminster, S. W., to Vxhridge. Ship's outfit, £1; railway fare and expenses, ; passage, £15; medical examination, 2s. 6d. Men's clothing, viz.: — shirts, coloured twill, at 3s. Gd.; shirts, coloured flannel, at (ss. 6d.; under flannels, at 3s. Gd.; pairs of stockings, at 25.; blue Guernseys, at 7s. 6d. ; pair of shoes, water-tight, at 20s. ; pair shoes, balmoral, at 18s. ; reefer coat, at 16s. 6d. ; mole waistwaistcoat, at 135.; mole trousers, at 12s. 6d.; white duck slops, at 45.; canvas bag, Is. Gd. Total, Women's clothing, viz : —■ chemises, at 2s. Gd.; flannel petticoats, at Gs. ; pairs of stockings, size No. ,at Is. ; strong shoes, at 7s. Gd.; yards of grey linsey for gown, at Is. ; yards of print, at Bd.; yards of glazed lining, at 4d. ; yards of unbleached calico, at 4|d.; yards of white calico, at 7d.; yards of white flannel, at ; yards of red flannel, at Is. Gd. Married women's parcel, containing 6 reels of cotton, 3 packets of needles, buttons, hooks and eyes, pins, thimbles, tape, hair pins, &c, at 2s. 6d.; cauvas bag, at Is. Gd. Incidental expenses, viz., fare to docks, cartage of luggage, porterage, dock dues, shipping expenses, &c, . Cash on board, . Interest, one year, from 12th November, 1872, and stamps, £ £ a. d. sterling. London, 12th November, 1872. On demand I promise to pay to Messrs. John Brogden and Sons, or order, the sum of £ a. d., for value received. Witness Signature Feee Passages. I consider that the instructions sent to the Agent-General by Mr. Waterhouse on the 23rd November, 1872, practically though not explicitly authorized the granting of free passages. The Agent-General was then instructed to relieve immigrants of the cost of reaching the port, and also the cost of bedding and of outfit. Mr. Waterhouse states further, " I must again impress upon you that the speedy introduction of a suitable body of immigrants is the first consideration: the expense must be regarded of secondary importance, so long as it remains within reasonable limits." And again with regard to relieving the emigrants of expense, " The ultimate decision as to the course to be adopted must still rest with yourself; but you will understand that the Government desires that you should feel yourself