IMMIGRATION.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 71, 19 July 1873, Page 3

IMMIGRATION.

The following Regulations for the conduct of Immigration to New Zealand, on the Nomination °f Immigrants by persons residing in the Colony, are published for general information: — 1. The Immigration Regulations and Forms of Application may be obtained at any Post Office or Immigration Office in the Colony; but applications and payments for passages are only to be made to Money Order Post Offices, or to the Immigration Officer at the capital town of each Province or County. 2. Any person resident in the Colony, desirous of nominating relatives or friends in Europe for passages to New Zealand, may do so by paying at any Money Order Post Office, or to the Immigration Officers aforesaid the sum of £4 for each adult (except single women) between 50 and 12 years of age, and £2 for each child under 12 years of age. Infants under one year, free. In certain cases, bills will be taken in lieu of cash payments, and passages will be provided for persons over fifty years of age. (See clause 6.) Widows with families are, as a rule, not eligible, and applications for passages in their behalf are only to be made to the Immigration Officers aforesaid. (See clause 6.) 3. Free passages will be granted to girls of 12 years of age, and upwards, accompanying their parents, and to single women between the ages of 16 and 35, provided they are able to produce proof of good character to the satisfaction of the AgentGeneral in London ; and a gratuity of 10s will be paid by the Agent-General to heads of families emigrating under these regulations for each single ■woman, not being a member of the family, brought out under their protection. 4. Every adult emigrant will be required, before embarkation, to pay the Agent-General 20s (and children in proportion), for bedding, blankets, and mess utensils. 5. In the event of any emigrant applied for declining to emigrate, whatever money or bills may have been deposited with the Government will be returned to the applicant so soon as the Agent-General shall have apprised the Government thereof; but in the event of any ■emigrant applied for accepting the offer of a passage in a particular ship, and then, by failing to present himself for embarkation at the time and port appointed by the Agent-General for the sailing of such ship, be left behind, the passage money will be forfeited. 6. The Immigration Officer at the capital town in each Province or County (and he only) will receive applications as under: — (1.) From persons who may wish to give bills for the passage money of their relatives or friends, instead of paying cash, as provided for in clause 1. The amount of the bills to be taken will be 50 per cent, over the amount above fixed to be paid in cash, and the bills will become due 30 days after the arrival of the immigrants sent for, and may be paid by instalments, the terms and periods of which must be arranged with the Immigration Officer. (2.) From persons whose friends are over 50 years of age. (3.) From persons whose friends are widows with children. 7. The above rates being only for the passage from the port of embarkation to the Colony, the •cost of conveyance to such port, and to the residence of their friends after arrival in the Colony, must be defrayed by the emigrants themselves. 8. All the ships employed in this service will be under the provisions of the Passenger Act. 9. It is to bo distinctly understood that, notwithstanding applications may have been granted at Money Order Post Offices, the Immigration Officers aforesaid are empowered to -object to any of the emigrants so nominated being sent out, either from unsuitability of occupation or from any other cause ; and the Agent-General in London 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.