INFLUX OF DOMESTICS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1308, 11 December 1911, Page 4

INFLUX OF DOMESTICS.

IMMIGRANTS BY THE TONGARIRO.

The Tongariro arrive!! 'from London on Saturday. Of ilio 308 passengers on board, all but cloven wore assisted by the Government through tho High Commissioner's Office. Among hem were 10a domestic servants, 511 fann labourers, and 2!) wives (in souio eases with lamilios) who had enmc out to icjoin their husbands. There were also a fe\r tradesmen of different lriiids, who had come out because of tho lhicr.uu.tinK character of work in the Old Land. The assisted passages cost men from JCB to .£l2 (siccordiiiß to l.bc ntcummddiition), and from J.'2 l(,s. to .£({ IBs. for domestic servants. A Jaryo number of the domestics (who cuino out in cluirßO of Missas J)alo imd Cooke) ore undor eii K nßemcut to a Xiipicr syndicate who secured them through the British Women's limitation Society, ilie syndicate pays tho passages, guarantees work out here, and subscribes to Hie funds of Hie Emigration hocijlT. J. Dβ assisted paweiiffew MO for tho iollowinp ports i-lYollinston, %; Auckland ffi; I.vltelton, 62; .Xapier, 23; Oreymouth, 16; JilulV. Uj Weslport, i:i; 'limaru. »; Cosljoruc, S; Xew Plymouth, 8i Picton i; Xelson, 1. All pashf.n|?ers for Oauiaru, Timaru, Duncdiii, and Bluff left on haturduy for tho-soutlt in the Tongariro.