ASSISTED PASSAGES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 29 December 1910, Page 2

ASSISTED PASSAGES

REGULATIONS REVISED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Revised particulars o£ the conditions governing the granting of reduced fate passages to immigrants for New Zealand have been issued by the Department of Immigration. Reduced rates available on direct steamers from England are: Second class, £27 (full fare £38); third class two-berth cabin £l2 (full fare £21); third class four-berth £lO (full fare £10). These assisted passages are available to domestics and agriculturists nominated by persons resident in the Dominion. The High Commissioner in London is authorised to grant passages at reduced rates to persons engaged in agricultural pursuits if the applicant will be possessed of a capital of £25 upon arrival in the Dominion. Domestic servants may also secure passages from the High Commissioner at reduced rates. Farm laborers and agriculturalists, ■whether nominated or not, are only given passages so that they may arrive in the Dominion during the summer months.* The new conditions emphasise the fact that persons in a delicate state of health should not be nominated, as passages at reduced rates will not be granted to them.