OUR EMIGRATION AGENT.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 18, 12 June 1875, Page 3

OUR EMIGRATION AGENT.

Wo (“ Taranaki News ”) have great pleasure in placing the following extract before our readers, taken from a letter of Mr Burton received by the last mail, and that Mr Hulkc has kindly placed at our disposal. It is eminently satisfactory. The immigrants by the lialcione may bo expected in the month of September, the beginning of our spring; and, we doubt not, will soon be taken up by private employers :—■ “ Mrs Burton and myself arc over head and ears in work, directing, providing for, and getting off the comparatively few (ninety-two) souls, who are going by thc'Collingwood. There would hj ave been more, but the ship was filled up with others, but the balance of my selection

will go in the next ship. After what year said about the undesirability of many arriving in Taranaki in the middle of winter, the Halcione has been chartered to convey 250 statute adults ; she sails on the 26th May—so tell our farmers to bo prepared to expect a lot of men who have been brought up to agricultural work. Those now sent by the Collingwood are good agricultural people, who, I believe, will do themselves and the Province good. The difficulty of obtaining this class of labour is hard work at the best of it. The dodges and falsehoods perpetrated by the farmers to prevent then* coming, you cannot think of. To mijpe doubly sure, Mrs Burton went up to London a day or two ago to provide vans to convey the emigrants from the railway terminus to the depot, and to arrange messes on board ship, so as to add to their comforts by having friends and relatives together. This is done to counteract the efforts made to persuade the people that Government take no care of them, &c. Fully two-thirds of

the difficulty of obtaining suitable emigrants rest with the women folks, who are unable to come to the lectures from having to attend their children—this I expected, but did not think it would be so general.”