POOR MIGRANTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1925, Page 1

POOR MIGRANTS.

HY TEI.KOI!AI’JI —I’Klt PRESS ASSOCIATIG.w] AB( KI.AND. September 28.

The North Canterbury Hospital Board is not alone in having had to provide relief to recently arrived immigrants. Cases similar to those reported from Christchurch last week have come before the relict department oi the Auckland Hoard. Among the eases are the following: A man. lii< wife and six children arrived under tin 1 nomination oi the wife's sister-in-law. whose husband was receiving a wage o! not more than L' I a week, lie had live children of his own, and thereloie could not olford a penny towards the maintenance of the family who were without means. Relict had to be granted. A man and wife, with six children who were receiving relict within two months of their arrival, had been proposed hy the Colonisation Society ill England, and laid been nominated by a man who had left New Zealand before they arrived without making any provision for their maintenance should they he in necessitous eireu in stances. Relief was granted to a man. and wile and four children, nominated, apparently. in a purely formal way by a local resident on behalf of some English society. The husband had signed a document freeing him from liability. A man in an advanced stage ol tuberculosis had been nominated hy local residents who had been unaw are of i Instate of his health. In this case the responsibility was a'-nmed By the Boveminent. A family of eight, hound for Aurkl.nc't, tainted ai Wellington. 1 hey arrive,! ,u Auckland station penniless and the mother and children remained oil the platform while the father sought and obtained assistance from the Hospital Board. i-'or some time the father ol five children has been earning t'l a week regularly and a little more casually. He has I,,>en receiving assistance towatih ‘the payment of his rent, as well as inDons lor the family. These people arrived from England last I-cbruary. In another case the nominator of. : family which had to he grant'd id if was himself receiving similar aitcc owing io accident or sieknes-.