MORE IMMIGRANTS.
lONIC (BRINGS 700 ILASSENGERiS
(Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Jan. 20
The Wiki to iStar liner lonic -arrived from London .with nearly 700 in;sseti.gors on' board, of whom 549 were in the third (Hiss. ' Of the third class' passengers 1395 were assisted immigrants. Quo hundred of the total passengers 'were children. According to the declarations made to the High. Commissioner, the 'immigrants come amply provided. The capital of one of them doing .-£2OOO and another declares an income of £BOO a year; The occupations are described as: Farmers 78, farm-labor-ers 25, domestic servants 54. The remainder are dairymen, gardeners, fruit growers,' .and housekeepers. Twenty-five husbands already in the Dominion will be rejoined by their wires, who have come out in the lonic.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2410, 27 January 1909, Page 5
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122MORE IMMIGRANTS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2410, 27 January 1909, Page 5
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