COMING COLONISTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 85, 27 August 1912, Page 8

COMING COLONISTS.

MANY IN PROSPECT. SOME THOUSANDS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE SOON.

With t'he near approach of spring the tide of immigration to New Zealand will soon set in again, and before long it should be rising high. Would-be immigrants are discouraged as much as possible from leaving England at a time of year which would bring them here during the winter, and no assisted passages arc granted by the Government throughout this period. This policy, together with t'he interruption to shipping occasioned by the dock strikes at Home, lias kept the number of newcomers at a very low level for some months past. It is about eight weeks since a direct 'boat arrived at Wellington irom London, but now the service is being resumed in a, manner calculated t<? make up for lost time, and some thousands of strangers will probably be landed here within the next few weeks.

The Turakina is bringing several hundred immigrants with her. The exact number of passengers for New Zealand is not known, but the ship was nearly full when she left London. After the Turakina will follow in quick succession the Athenic, the Remuera, the Corinthie and the Buahine, all of them due to arrive before the «nd of September. It is expected that these four steamers will .bring at least two thousand third-class passengers between them. Other direct boats due to arrive through the summer will also be full, as information has been received that the whole of the available third-class accommodation has been booked right up to the end of December. There are a few assisted passengers on the Turakina—fifty-three in all, of whom thirty-one are adults and twenty-two children under twelve years of age. The adults are all women, either domestic servants or wives coming out to rejoin their husbands. Subsequent batches of assisted immigrants will probably include a considerable proportion of men accustomed to farm work.