THE IONIC'S IMMIGRANTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 7

THE IONIC'S IMMIGRANTS.

QUICKLY ABSORBED. . Now Zealand's power to rapidly absorb •population was never better demonstrated than in the case of the great load-or,,pas-sch"brs landod at this poYt'by the lo'mr on Wednesday. Mr. J. K March, Immigration Officer,-said last evening tli.it the whole of those "who arrived by the White Star liner, irith tho exception of thosa booked jFor Wellington; had gone forward "to their several destinations, bright with .the hope .that a better lot awaits them hero than m that thev have left behind on the other sulo of the' world. The domestic servants for Napior. who came out m charge of Miss Gokling, loft for Napier in a special carriage yesterday morning. * . The following is tho disposition of tho lonic's thinl-clnss passengers:—Auckland, 161;. Now Plymouth, 'iSnpier, 30; Gisborno, 10; Wangnimi, 3; Nelson, s;;Prcton, 4- WoJlingtnn, 149; (ircymputh, /:. Westport, 1; Lyttolton, ]07; 'lmiaru. 5; Osniaru, 2; I'ort Uiialmors, 35; and Bluff, 15. Mr. March snys that thcro is an urgent demand for farm labourers and milkers, but thov aro almost unobtainable. A milker went to "the Labour Department a day or two ngo for a job. Ho was offered a good ono st 255. a w«ok with board and lodging, but he would have nono of it, and said that ho had "turned up "30s. a wool; and kept, and was- looking for something hotter.,, Tho "something bettor" jobs we'r'6 , not so'plentiful in the Department's gjft as he supposed, and ho went away unprovided for.