TAINUI'S PASSENGERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1940, 24 December 1913, Page 5

TAINUI'S PASSENGERS.

NEW FACES FROM THE OLD WORLD. It was a motley yet physically sturdy array of men, weiiK-u, and elidd-ren who gazed with curious e\cs on AVelliiiKtou, as'the Tainui moved up to the wharf in the brilliant sunshine, yesterday afternoon. As usual the greater number of them were those who li-avo, "burned their boats'' behind 'then?, snd' are determined to 'curve out s'i now lilft in a briuhtar,' grc-ner hind than that which they have left. Old Knglmi'l l is a glorious country, hut there aw thousands wlio know nought o( it 3 glories, who sleep in poor tenements, and work in slum factories betienlh coloured skies that but .seldom sutrger.t ilifi sun"!i:;il beauty of the heavens. To thoso who have been cooped up' in tho crowded quarters of the J-irgcr cities tho lsreoKV openness and blue .skies -of New Zealand inußt make a great aj>peal. At this iitne of tho year t'ogf, .snow, snmt-hulon driwdo. and somii'ror.cu miro are the conditions ilint- h.'.no to bo combatted at Home. It is dttforent lie-re. First impressions go ;v long way, and from elianee remarks jets drop nmona iho immmranis there did not seem to bo any doubt about the country .npt siul-ine. Tho Tainui brought a total of 0.">2 passengers— 9 • first-class, 71 second-class, ami 472 third-class. Of tho latter £3!) word assisted passengers, and comprint) 02 domestics, 47 farm labourers, 15 wives, and 35 children. They a.ro booked as follows: —AVcllingtou, 134;' Auckland, 120; Napier, 18;. Gishorne, 42; Lyttelton, 56; Timani, 20; 'Rrinty--dill, 2o; liluit, 23; I'ieteu, 1; Mclfthlt, 10; Westport, 23; Grey mouth, 21; New Plvtnonth, 2S; Wiingaimi, 12. With tho exception of thoso for tho West Coast the whole of the' "assistcds" will have left Wollinp.t'O'n for their respective destinations at 0.13 a.m. today, This reflects credit on the system pursued in the local Immigration Office. A great many ordinary pas'sttßgers for the 'south <?x Tainui could lKit gst away last evening on account, cf tlm heavy holiday traffic-, but bertlis had been scoured beforehand for all tho "a-ssistods" for southern ports. .. The Mamari, specially: charlcfHi by the New Zealand Qovemmeut, will arrive here from Homo with 531 assisted passengers for all ports on Sum' Soy next—tlio largest number ever brought to New .Zealand in one ship. " 'I h;-r ( is ' only tho one class' (third) on this vessel,' and ail on'.board, have been passed by the Gove.rnme.nt officials at Home. Tho 681 passengers includf 81 domestics, 89 farm kibonrors, while the oth« 301 aro wives and relatives of tlsos-3 on board And heOpln already settled in the country. Tho Mtunnri's iiro booked as follow:—WVilinguvi. !?2; Auckland, 148; Napiw, 2D: (Ji.Wirne, 22; Wangamii. 21; New Plymouth, 4; Lyttolten, 77; Timani, 10; Dnued-ih, 62; Blnff, £5; Piston, 8; Nelson, 4; West (Vast, 39,