EMIGRATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1727, 19 April 1906, Page 2

EMIGRATION.

STIMULATED BY “ ALL BLACKS.”

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S CIRCULAR

London, Maroh 17. The visit of the New Zealand football n team to this country gave a fillip to emi- ? gration to New Zealand, During the stay of the team in England the number of applications for information with reference to the colony used to number from 80 to 100 each day. Recently, however, the High Commissioner baß issued a cironlar whioh has beerr, free of advertisement charges, published in hundreds of newspapers, with the result that now from 200 to 250 letters are received every morniDg et the London office of the New Zealand Government, asking for information. This circular, whioh is an " authorised statement,” is worded es follows : “ For many years the Government of New Zealand has adopted the far-Beeing polioy of encouraging suitable persona to oome from this oountry, while at the same time taking steps to open up nnocoupied lands by railways and roads, so that newTV oomers may be able to settle as cultivators A of the land There oan be no doubt of tteS* success of this polioy. New Zealand possesses a pleasant climate and fertile soil, not excelled by any other oountry in the world, for the profitable production of every description of grain, frail, and for the rearing of sheep, oattle, and horses. New Zealand is eminently fitted, therefore, for small farming, and one of A the results of the Government’s polioy is that every year a number of wageearners take up land for farming, and become their own masters. The High Commissioner for tho colony has received a cablegram from his Government, stating that in ordor to complete the Trunk line of railway to the North Island within the next three years 1000 railway navvies aro required, but that this number of men are not at the moment to be had

in New Zealand. To give suitable meii an opportunity of sharing in the good prospeots which this opeuing offers, the High Commissioner is authorised to extend the present system of reduced rate patssges to good pick-and-shovel men, without requiring any capital qualification, so that, subject to his being satisfied as jto their character, boalth, and physique, they oan have passages to New Zealand for LlO. This concession will be extended to their wives and children. The rate paid for piecework to m.'n of this cla?s enables them to earn from 6s to 9s per diem. There are occasional opportunities given of even larger earnings under the Government system of cooperative contracts. It must be under? stood that the Government, while not guaranteeing employment, will see that the men aro offerad work, and taken to it on their arrival is, the colony. It may be added that there is a Government labor bureau at Wellington, which has some 200 branobos in various parts of the oolonyj and at whioh overy information and assist--ass*

anco is given to men on arrival in Nov?” Zealand." Experienced farm laborers are slbo in demand, and, if approved |by the High Commissioner, will receive reduced rate passages, provided they can land in New Zealand with not less than fiva pounds (JEs).’’ The New Zealand Government now is also offering to 1000 domestic servants, of good health and character, reduced passages without o pital qualification. Up to the present 200 navvies have been acoepted on the same terms for emigration JfflP I to the colony. The first batch left a,/ 1 by the looio.-N.a. Horald, *1