A GRUMBLER.

Evening Star, Issue 3794, 22 April 1875, Page 2

A GRUMBLER.

_ To the Editor. with to inquire whether It la in the power of the immigration authorities to send a man from one Province to another t I, with a fellow shipmate, was induced to come from Napier to Otago in the belief that work was more plentiful in Dunedin, but now find my mistake. I have striven to find employment. offing l am ‘ “P®4 n P° n the immigration officer here, and asked his assistance to get back to Napier, where we are well known w n\ a c £. a ? ce of Setting employment, but all he did was to tall us to ere up-country, where we could get work. This we have done, but have not been able to set work. In some places the people told as they had more men than they knew what to do with, ana from others we received negative replies, because they required men specially used t© their work. ]Now I know that a passage has been given to other persons in the same fix as “Wi wko wished to leave Napier and were P*? th ®[s passages, but waited to return to the places they first arrived at. If done in one case, why cannot it be done in another ? We should be willing to repay the passagemoney when we got work; therefore, we think it very hard and not encouraging to emigrants, or to those wishing to get their friends out to the Colony. I see nothing but starvation or a pnson before us, which is hard to tbinV 0 f when you have been differently situated in the old country. But plated as we now axe it must come to one or the other. By publishing this you will oblige, yours, &a, * * * Dunedin, April 22. *• *oum.