IMMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 321, 21 January 1908, Page 2

IMMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

BATCH jjy xijl'.U'A.\(.'l. Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. III!' [apamu. which arrived this mornlug jrom London, brought some bundled and sixty passengers j„ t| l( , tliii-,1 class, including twenty-seven to whom assisted passages had been granted. The hit let- include, five farmers, three farm laborers, live domestics (none of whom are booked lor Wellington.l. and the remainder are married women who have coin., out lo join tlu>ir husbands. The capital possessed by the assisted passengers averages c.jn each. .Mr. A. (I. S. Darby, t lie- Immigration Officer, was early on the scene, attending to the new arrivals and tendering them advice. He Mates that the health of the passengers is very good, and only one was detained tor lurlher examination. fie is not "koly to cause ally trouble, as he possesses a return ticket. Three other p is. songcrs whom tile Health Ollicer requested to strip for a minute examination wore allured to proceed. "The .<oneia. .standard of the new arrivals," said Air. Darby, ''i,, jf anything, above tint " tile usual arrivals, and. indeed, the standard keeps stcadiiv improving.