NEW PLYMOUTH.
Saturday.
A deputation of influential gentlemen waited upon the Immigration Officer today with a view of ascertaining what im-
migrants might be expected here, to counterbalance the dearth of labour here. Mr King said men were getting seven and eight shillings a day, and there was a great want of servant girls. He said the railway to Strathford would be completed .before next summer, and that would absorb a large amount of labour. Mr Courtney said he-had called for tenders for moving a building, and for ploughing, and he had received only two tenders for one job, and none for the other. Mr Bayley said 300 immigrants might be absorbed next summer, not to speak of harvesting. Mr Webster said the grass seed harvest next year would be a large one, and if there was not more labor it would be lost. He had to pay men eight shillings a day and feed, and had almost to beseech them to work at that. The Immigration Officer said the immigrants by the Huranui were absorbed in eleven days. He would "represent what had been stated to the Government.
A man named Wm. Dale was crushed by a tree falling on him whilst felling it, and was killed.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2949, 29 July 1878, Page 2
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