THE ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL LABORER IN NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 200, 2 July 1879, Page 2

THE ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL LABORER IN NEW ZEALAND.

Under the above heading, a correspon: dent of the Daily News writing from Wellington, gives a glowing account of the prospects before an English agricultural laborer going to New Zealand, He states, ; with reference to his visit to Otago:-/ "The excessive moisture qf Otago a freshness and luxuriance of vegetation which reminds an Englishman of Hopie. Nor is there much to disturb the illusion when he mingles with the inhabitants. Everything looks like Home-4he bustlej the business enterprise, the air of prosperity, the noblo churches, {lie healthy look of the people—and the rain. As everyone knows Dunedin, the capital of Otago, and about seven miles*from Port by rail, is emphatically a 'Scotch town. ' Macs' are everywhere in forco—hencey I suppose, the wondrous prosperity of $ place. I never visited a town with mc signs of progress and general conifer i Labor seemed every where in demand,fyi the poor did not seem to be with them at if 9 When unskilled labor commands liigLH wages than thousands of Engishmen M high culture can get, poverty is out of jS

'Stoni Wa«*a vurimwiia 5 -- iayg&S welkliisiaitHi Mildihg, With t«idi!ig ; rcoma; billiitf'd-tJ.bl&s; & library, . ?HtiiWrt>oniAt and a mtatinint,; ffhcrbftll kimls bf fotfd &sii be cUaiti&L .In . utio of the suburbs a large Immigrant Homo hat been Erected, whore, free of eh&rge, the fortunate possessors of strong n and Weatherproof constitutions go straight frote the emigrant ships, ami lives -well till th» obtain employment. llb ppy tbilers I Mite is realised their dream of I prosperity--' *ight hoars' work, eight i hours' sl»&i>; eight hOuva' play, and 8b ■&• day,' Skilled Tabor commands a much kigher price. Good m&aoiis, esrpeptera, blacksmiths, and mechanics generally get kern 12* to 16a per day."