NOT SO BRIGHT AS PAINTED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 4

NOT SO BRIGHT AS PAINTED.

AN IMMIGRANTS STATEMENT.

(By Telegraph.—Snccial Correspondent* Auckland, September 1. Alxmt 120 of iho Euapehu's immigrants havo come to Auckland. A sturdy, keenlooking immigrant, who lias forsaken Birmingham for New Zealand., spoke to a reporter in an optimistic vein ot Ins prognosis in New Zohlond. Ho dcscribcd the'party which had arrived in Ajid;laiul as a fino lot of young liicn, wliosa main desire is to get on tno ioml. "I must say, however, went on Uio new arrival, "that from what I have seen during tlio few days I have been in Auckland, I don't think tho picture is to bright as it is painted at Home. 110 said in Binningham, where lus wage was -Bs, a week, lie obtained a comfortable sixl'oomcd house with a. garden for (is. a week, and he lived comfortably. In Auckland, ho said, ho could not find a ho-use (it to livo in for .El a week, and from what lie had heard the cost of living was dearer. "A man with 28s. a week at Homo is better off than tho man witlii Bs. a dav in Auckland," ho concludcd. Asked as to the conditions prevailing at Homo when ho left, tho immigrant stated that they were very bad, but much belter than th'ev had been some months previously. 'When ho left England, Mora tho recent strike broke oul, there woto thousands of good men out of employment,