IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE.
POUR HUNDRED ON lONIC. LARGE NUMBER OF FARMERS. About 400 immigrants arrived In Auckland by the steamer lonic last week. Of this number 165 were men and women who had been nominated by friends or relatives in the Dominion. Tha remaining 240 were sent out under tha Imperial Government's overseas settlement scheme. There was a large per* centage of farmers and farm-laborers among them. They for the most part, are married men, and are keen to get on the land in New Zealand. They numbered 55, and are destined for different parts of the Dominion, soma going to the South Island. Among tils others were engineers, surveyors, motor mechanics and engineers, fitters, an electrical engineer, bakers, gardeners, two solicitors, a dentist, nine miners, a builder, a wool merchant aiid importer, a dentist, five teachers, two commercial travellers, and a medical practitioner. Fourteen young women came to be married to New Zealanders, and, in addition, there were many domestic helps.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1920, Page 5
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161IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE. Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1920, Page 5
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