THE TREATMENT OF IMMIGRANTS,

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 583, 15 February 1876, Page 3

THE TREATMENT OF IMMIGRANTS,

Sis— Tlier© ia tome truth and muck uncalled for eauie of complaint in the statomont of the immigrants made to your tpecial reporter on hit recent visif, published in jour paper of to-day. Tb«y did not tell him of the work refused, of the uuwillingness to take a job here or a job there, the character of w hich di \ not suit their aneioa ; nor did they tell of the general kmdnois received at the handf of settlers and others. An to the aooommodation itielf, found them by tho Government, they are to blame for much of its unfitneis or inadequacy. A. feature if made of the absence of a w ell for their use. The truth i is there wai a well prorided, but they quarrelled amongst themislres as regards the u»e of it, aud one man commenced digging a well alongside for himself and aotually partly filled in the existing one with the earth thrown out from the other, till laziness made him desist from the work he had uuilnrtaken. Much of the dirt and squalor which exist if due to their own laziness, and not to any want of acporamodation afforded them bj the authorities. I think it but fairto»iate this, as Bomo answer to the cenijil lints whioh a few of tho nniuiijrants have mado through your journal, and whioh to some considerable oxterrt might, I believe, bo contradicted. lam, &c, Justice. Cambridge, Feb. 12lh IS7(J,