AN EXODUS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9121, 14 April 1908, Page 8

AN EXODUS.

Per Press Association. Auckland, April 18. The s.s. Mokoia, sailing for Sydney this afternoon, takes to Australia a very large number of passengers, a berth in the vessel’s steerage class being absolutely unprocurable by noon to-day, while only a few saloon berths remained open for selection. The steerage passengers alone number 181. Thirty-seven Austrians from different parts of the district, hut chiefly from the northern Wairoa, are passengers by the Mokoia for Sydney to-day. Most of the men are gumdiggers who have been in the Dominion for from five to seven years. Some of the travellers are proceeding to Australia with the intention of remaining there, while others are a visit to their homeland, aud will afterwards retur]! to New Zealand, ‘‘ r "