ARRIVALS BY CORINTHIC

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1924, Page 1

ARRIVALS BY CORINTHIC

1 WHAT POLL AM) l;Ki,lKi'- | UiK DOING. I wkluxgtox, iv-).. (i. j •> 11 iin 1 1■ r of I in- i iii inil; i:im 1?■ wh; > ; arrived I <y lEii■ ('nriiithic vesteniax unable to catch either ill.- iiiifli'ay express or Ihc special tla in ai - “clock joe A mklaml. ‘They reinaiuoil ill Wellington. ami v,eie allowed I" retain tlu-ir sleeping he; i la, on ike hoa t. anil lea ve he lhe 1’ hi.-!; ira in to-day. I 'The immigrants included a uulmr | ‘i' < i II sons ami ilaui: 1> I ers. v, hn are I going to Auckland: another family comprised parents and 10 eliildren : a thinl consisted ot S children and parents: and another of (j children and parents, in !■: widow A\n him; faahly. A “Times" reporter chatted with the widow and three of hep grown-up ons !a;,t evening on board the Corint hie. The oldest of the family is a daughter ul do. and the eldest .son i I'd. who was in the dock police in the 'Port of London. Six of the children are under 17, who, under the Government immigration scheme, received free, passages, while the passages of the remainder of the family from Southampton to Ncv. Zealand only amounted to £*3t> ::: all e" his to the Government assistance under the scheme. 'This includes the journey from Wellington to Auckland. The elder son.* intend to go to work on the land until ‘•aeh time as they can get a holding for themselves. The daughters, v. ho arc old enough, are going into doliies-

tif service. Tile son win; v,;is In. t}:•;■ dork poller spoke about comlil ion-i at home. He said the ordinary shipyard labourer earned CL! ;; s it week it hi work. If out of work they received the dole and also assistance from ihe relieving oilier uiidci' the Ilnard of (luai'diaiis. Through these two channels they could obtain Ids and €:i per week, nceording to the number of eliildren. so that many of ihein. alien offered a job in the docks or on arterial roads, replied, “Why work for £•_’ when I can cot Cl! I.os from tiie K.O. and imemploymeuf money?" (doles.). “And very often they could pot hoots and clothes into the bargain,” said the new tirrival. “The dole, is helping to pauperise the Old Country. Thera is no doubt about that. It <ns is millions to keep this dole going. Inn it they are a-ked to «•.,!•); on Oo\-ertiiiie!ii reads: they won't do it."

Itteidentally the widowed mother said her husband had been a. parkkeeper in the Mast ol 1.-.uidon, ami she had brought- up her family ol 11 children on. Iter husliand's wages of 20s petweek.