RENT OF IMMIGRATION COTTAGES.
Sib, — I was glad to nee you drawing attention to the treatment of the immigrants by tha Government with reipect to the me of the cottage* in tiio icreral townshipi to which they and their families aro lent. There need* ho pointing to tlio want of decency and health which muit i-eault from ofer crowding, 'bur, few who did not actually know the facti 'of the ciio (ill your report appeared ever dremnod that tho 'Government \thb making the tent they did out of thoio buildinga. li'onr shilling* a xvook for a ifciull room and tbo third of the mo of a kitchen is m high renb, but what is more ereu when a -room is unoccupied tbo other tenants aro not allowed to have the benefit of it but it is carefully locked from them. Thi» U oarryiog matter* a httle boo far, 'bat IcinaKurejou it is coirect. -lain, io, A. T. flamilton, T«bffa»rj 14tb.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 583, 15 February 1876, Page 3
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160RENT OF IMMIGRATION COTTAGES. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 583, 15 February 1876, Page 3
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