MORE IMMIGRANTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 14 June 1909, Page 8

MORE IMMIGRANTS.

| . BY THE WAKANTJI AND THE lONIO. I 220 ASSISTED PASSENGERS. I Tho 'Wakanui, from England, ■ which berthed at tho Qneen'e Wharf at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, brought over a hundred immigrants to. New Zealand. She had 114 third-class passengers, 4fi ,or whom, including ten children under twelve, were "assisted." Twenty-eeven out of the 45 wore nominated by relatives m New Zealand, and 18 wero sont out by tho High Commissioner. The 45 assisted irami. grants include three fanners, seven labourers, 11 domestics, jind "4 wives. Their capital varies from £1550 to £25. A much larger contingent comes by the lonio,i due in port early this morning. She brings 392 passengers of all classes, including 325 third-class, 175 of whom are, aesisted. Out of that'OTJtnber, 110 were nominated by relatives in New Zealand, and 66 ■ were selected from applicante to fee High I Commissioner. The assisted passengers mclnde 42 domestic servants (26 of whom ore going to tho Ladies' Syndicate in Hawke s Bay), 16 farmers, two farm labourers,, one dairy farmer, and 53 children under 12 years of age. The capital brought here by the lonic's assisted immigrants' varies from £1000 to £25. The Wakanui's paesengere had an uneventful and pleasant trip. On arrival Mr Danby.. (Immigration Officer) boarded' /the vessel on the stream, and acquainted himself wffch as many of the .immigrants as possible. Hβ considered them a very .satisfactory lot of prospective colonists. : Mr. Proctor,/of, the Labour '. Department,' and Miss; Bremner, of tho Women's Employment Bureau, also, went on board. None of tho passengers seemed to bo looking for situations, as. domestio servants, /