NEW ZEALAND IMMIGRANTS.
A point that the new arrival from the Old Country has to learn is that money in New Zealand has a different value in the countries of hi 3 birth and of vhis adoption (says the Lyttelton Timcsjj A young man was charged at the Magistrate's Court for failing to provide his wife with adequate maintenance. He pleaded not guilty, and said that a fortnight ago he paid her Is IOJd. " A while after they arrived, in January, she got 6s or 7s ouf ofjjie," he told the Court. He said he was a warehouseman and got 24s a week at Home! "You'll get more than that here, if you only do pick and shovel work," the Magistrate told him. He was ordered to pay £1 a week towards his wife's support, l and was offered ihe alternative of paying £25 into court as a security, finding sureties for £SO, or going to eaol for six moliths. He de cided to deposit the £25. In illustration of the "same point, Mr V. G. Day, S.M., afterwards told a reporter that a while ago a large manufacturing firm " imported " a number of work-ijirls, and these were much annoyed when they landed because they could not not spend the farthings thoy had brought.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8143, 28 June 1906, Page 4
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214NEW ZEALAND IMMIGRANTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8143, 28 June 1906, Page 4
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