IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 20, 10 June 1871, Page 5

IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS.

A Gazette published on Friday contains the following regulations for the introduction of immigrants into this province on the nomination of persons resident therein : 1. Each applicant will be required to pay the sura of £5 for each adult at the lime of making the application, and £2 10s for each child between the ages of one and twelve years. Infants in arms, under one year, free. This rate being from London to Wellington, only ; the cost of reaching London and proceeding up the country after arrival in Wellington will have to be defrayed by tha emigrants themselves. 2. As a rule, no unmarried females can be provided with passages under these regulations, excepting they accompany or are under the care of some specified relative or friend. Passages for unmarried females not so accompanied can only be granted subject to the Agent-General in England being able to make suitable provision for oversight during the voyage. 3. In the event of any emigrants applied for declining to emigrate, whatever money may have been deposited with the Government will be returned as soon as the AgentGeneral in England shall have apprised the Goyernment thereof; but in the event of any emigrants applied for accepting the offer of a passage in a particular ship, and so, by failing to present themselves for embarkation at the time and place appointed by the AgentGeneral in England for the sailing of such ship, be left behind, the passage money and passages will be forfeited. 4. All the ships employed in this service will be under the provisions of “ The Passenger Act.” 5. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Agent General in England will have power to refuse passages where the intending emigrants are in ill health or in any way unfitted, according to his judgment, to undertake the voyage. 6. Applications for passages are to be addressed to the Provincial Secretary, Wellington, in the following form, viz.:—I, the undersigned, hereby apply for the passage to Wellington, under the regulations of 30th May, 1871, of Name Age Calling Address in full for which I herewith pay the sum of , being equal to adults at £5 per adult, and hereby agree to receive the Emigrants above named immediately on their arrival in Wellington. Dated this day of , 1871. (Signature and address of Applicant.)