SPEAK AS YOU FIND.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4824, 7 September 1876, Page 2

SPEAK AS YOU FIND.

TO THE EDITOn OP THE NEW ZEALAND TIHES. Sib, —Some short time past I read in your journal Mr. Elliot's report on immigration, wherein it is stated that the Italians who have come to these shores do not appear to be the proper class. Now, in justice to them, I will briefly state my experience. Some nine months past I engaged an Italian woman as domestic servant, and have had every reason to be highly satisfied with her. She is an early riser, and a steady hard working woman, and. I can say for the last twenty-two years a better has never been in the house. A month or two later a young Italian man came up for work, when he waß engaged. He has now been here for seven or eight months, and I have had every reason to be well pleased with him ; he ib obliging and steady, adapts himself to the ways of the farm, and does his work with alacrity. In the Fritz Reuter the husband and daughter of our domestic arrived, when they were also engaged to live in the house, and I have had no reason to regret it. He is a capital gardener, milks the cows, and is most willing to turn his hands to anything. As there are still, I believe, some thirty or thirty-five Italians in the Barracks waiting engagement, it gives me very great pleasure to state my experience of them, and hope they will soon find some kind employers, and that they will Berve them as faithfully as their fellow countrymen Berve us. , A number constantly come here to see their friends, and they all inform me that they like New Zealand very much, but feel it hard getting no employment. Trusting these few remarks may tend to get them work.—l am, &c, J. F. E. Wmoht. Goathurst Farm, September 5.