IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Issue 2830, 14 March 1872, Page 3

IMMIGRATION.

The following regulations for the introduction of immigrants into the colony, on the nomination of persona resident therein, are published in the New Zealand Gazette of March 5 1. The immigration regulations and forms of application may be obtained at any post office or immigration office in the colony ; but applications and payments for passages are only to be made to Money Order post offices or to the Immigration Officer at |he capital town of c-ach province or county. 2. riny person resident in the colony, desirous of nominating relatives or friends iu Europe for passages ,to New Zealand, may do so by paying at any Money Order post office or to the Immigration Officers aforesaid, the sum of L 5 for each adult (except single women) under 50 years of age, and L2 10s for each child under 12 years of age. Infants under one year free. In certain cases, bills will be taken in lieu of cash payments, and passages will be provided for persons over fifty years of age. (See clause 0, secs. 1 and 3.) Widows with families are, as a rule, not eligible, and applications for passages in their behalf, ar? only to be made to the Immigration Officers aforesaid. (See clause 6, boo. 4.) 3. Free passages will be granted to girls of 12 years of age and upwards accompanying their parents, and to single women between the ages of 16 and 35, provided they are able to produce proof of good character to the satisfaction of the Agent-General in London. 4. Every simjl ■ worn a - wi.l he e-pa- d bef re - mbark tioa, v-. ■■■ • t. General 255. and every other & ■ dc --.-s au ch idreuin proportion;, for bedding, blankets, and mess utensils, 6, In the event of any emigrant applied for declining to emigrate, whatever money or bills may have been deposited with the Government will he returned to the applicant so soon as the Agent-General shall have apprised the Government thereof ; but in the event of any emigrant applied for accepting the offer of a passage iu a particular ship, and so, by failing to present himself for embarkation at the time and port appointed by the Agent-General for the sailing of such ship, be left behind, the passage money will be forfeited. 6. The Immigration Officer at the capital town in each province or county (and he only) will receive applications as under 1, From persons who may wish to give bills for the passage money of their relatives or friends, instead of paying cash, as provided for iu clause 1. The amount of the bills to be taken will bo 60 per cent, over the amount above fixed to be paid in cash, and the bills, will become due thirty days after the arrival of the immigrants sent for, 2. From persons who desire to leave to their agents in Europe the nomination of emigrants of any particular class, the terms will be the same as if nominated iu the colony. 3, From persons whose friends are over 50 years of age. 4. From persons whose friends are windows with children. 7. The above rates being only for the passage from the port of embarkation to the colony, the cost of conveyance to such port and to the residence of their friends after arrival in the colony, must be defrayed by the emigrants themselves. 8. All the ships employed in this service ■will be under the provisions of the Passenger Act. 9. It is to be distinctly understood that, notwithstanding applications may have been granted at Money Order Post Offices, the Immigration Officers aforesaid are empowered to object to any of the emigrants so nominated being sent out, ether from unsuitability of occupation or from any other cause ; and the Agent-General in London will have power to ref se passages where the intending emigrants are in ill-health, or in any ■way unfitted, according to bis. judgment, to undertake the voyage.