IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3699, 30 December 1874, Page 2

IMMIGRATION.

The following ex'ract from a letter from an emigration agent iu Dundee to Dr, Featherston has been handed to ua (Clut-ha dee’) for publication, as showing the very uimatisfactorv manner in which* the former are sometimes treated by the latter, and which will, in some measure, account for the class of immigrants who are now flocking to our shores :

Surely it is enough to have to bear the complaints of emigrants in regard to your treatment of them by first issuing papers telling them not to leave their employment nor to make any preparations tor departure before receiving emigration orders, and then, in most cases, giving them only a day or two’s notice to be aboard the vessel, and, in several instances, not funushmg them with emigration orders until they reach the ship. The complaints winch this gives rise to are surely enough to endure, apart from being annoyed for six eight, or nine months, iu arranging the miseranle pittance allowed to agents for their trouble, in some cases it little more than pays paper and postage of letters. So far as I can see, the effect of this treatment of emigration is, that really good men, those worth having will not submit to the annoyance thus caused uiem, and hence few bf thd bCstdasa evter dm. D&ra, while the comparatively worthiest, £ho6e j

who do no good for themselves here, and sre not likely to improve in the Colony, being only too glad of an opportunity to leave,* actually embark. This is, I think, sufficient to account for the complaints of the New Zealand papers in regard to the class of people sent out there, and for my own part, being satisfied that there is neither credit nor profit to be derived from identifying myself any longer with emigration to_ New Zealand, I wish to close my connection with it, I will therefore thank you to have the amounts due me remitted without delay, as it has been all work and outlay, and no pay to speak of during the past two years.