STILL THEY COME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 March 1914, Page 8

STILL THEY COME.

OUK IN" 1)1 AX I'I'OTIIKRS. By Tele;; la pi], Press Association. Auckland, Last Night, live more 'lndian coolies from Fiji arrived by the Island steamer Navua t-liis morning to swell the ranks of tlieir fellow-countrymen who have already settled in the Dominion, and particularly in this part of it. The newcomers were alile to satisfy a very meagre test, ill English required liv the Immigration Act. and they are now entitled to all the privileges of colonists who have not been naturalised. Already there is more than a sprinkling of tlieir compatriots in the Auckland district. Hawking fruit and similar commodities seems to be tlieir favorite railing for Indians to adopt. They originally come out to Fiji as workers in sugar-cane plantations. and some of them, who apparently prefer work in the fields, take mi positions as farm laborers when ttic.V come to New Zealand. There are two or three lots of them workin? on farms down the Main Trunk line. At the. present time 24 Indians appear on the books of the Auckland City Council as holding hawkers' licenses.