MORE IMMIGRANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 126, 19 May 1908, Page 2

MORE IMMIGRANTS.

THE ATHENIC'S complement. Per Presß Association Wellington, Last Night. lei haps the Anglo-Welsh footballers were the most attractive and interesting passengers the Athcnic brought to Wellington yesterday, hut they were not the most useful to the Dominion, racked in the stern of the big liner, were 404 immigrants, all of them cowing to Now Zealand to begin life &g&in, full of hope, and full of determination to become good citizens. The immigrants were met by an officer of the f jDepurtmeut of Labor who reported that they were « a fi n <. jot,- a n<l 0 f the ebuS calculated to make the best colonists. -1 large proportion were young men, almost all of whom were proficient m some trade. The majority were formers who will go on the land, hut thWwere

aiso a large number skilled in other I tunics, especially building. Bight farmI .I'm* WetC f , oke<l for Wull inßton, and it this poit also landed two saddlers n. miner and a painter. Ninety,' * men M t° take up domesCtt except three came out ui.dV, 0 ® '"ent, and these throe km h!*foiled to the recentlyfJ™. u "" l";«"ch of the Labor Dem.^Lr"^' 8

will not be lomTout £ The y Of the third class «,«,! 6m P lo yment, 1 Hhom bought n ] argo fomj). . «»eb KM. *BOO each? A POBthe immigrants, probably / portion of ber than usual, caw# r ' '"W nunicertain positions, f yU ' to take up

hopefniiy of their V illa others spoke ed themselves \yl'' . ''ospects, and expresswork, althomr*- ; llin S to do any kind of nearly all ] t was clear that they ment. V referred skilled employgers \v 1 1 ° 3 ' 1 °f the third-class passenqj, , -re booked for other ports nortb i>» jO"th of Wellington, and there is ardlv a town of any size in New Zealand t 0 which at least one younc man w not going. 6