PASSAGES TO IMMIGRANTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 31 December 1910, Page 3

PASSAGES TO IMMIGRANTS

REVISED REGULATIONS. Revised particulars of the conditions governing the granting of reducedrate passages to immigrants for New Zealand have been issued by the Department of Immigration. The reduced rates (available only on direct steamers from England) are :—Second class, £27, (full fare, £38); third-class (two-berth cabins), £l2 (full fare, £21); -third-class (four-berth) £lO (full fare, £l9). These assisted passages, are available to domestic servants 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 obtain from the High Commissioner passages at reduced fares. Agriculturists, whether nominated or not, are only given passages so that they may only arrive in the

Dominion during the summer months. The new conditions strongly emphasise the fact that persons in a delicate state of health should not he nominated, as passages at thcreduced rates will not he granted to them.