IMMIGRATION.
T» the Editor. Sir, —As the Government are still introducing immigrants into the country, I wish to say a few woids in respect of the laboring class of Dunedin. Being a laborer myself, and having been in the country a few years now, I have notieed of late a numerous body of my fellow men idling about without work. Now, sir, I wish [to ask why it is that men should be without employment and still the great influx into the Colony, and agents gwing about in the old country delivering lectures and giving oat pamphlets praising up Mew Zealand, when such a numerous body is idle here. Perhaps you will say it is because these men will net work. This I have heard remarked before, but I know plenty of men Whc are willing, and have applied for work and cannot get it, who have been told to go up-country and have done so, but were as fir off as ever. Aow, sir, what we intend doing ie forming a Working Men’s Committee to wait upon the Provincial Government, asking them whatjoan be done for us. Surely if men are brought out to this country, work should be found for them.—l am, &c., A Working Man. Dunedin, July 2.
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Evening Star, Issue 3856, 3 July 1875, Page 2
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211IMMIGRATION. Evening Star, Issue 3856, 3 July 1875, Page 2
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