ASSISTED IMMIGRATION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2094, 21 January 1908, Page 2

ASSISTED IMMIGRATION

STANDARD OF 1 IMMIGRANTS STEADILY IMPROVING.

Press Association

WELLINGTON, Jan. 20

The R..M.S. Papanui, which arrived this morning from London via ports, brought some hundred and sixty passengers in the third class, including twenty-seven, to idiom assisted passages had been granted. The latter number includes five farmers, tbreo farm laborers, five domestics (none of whom are hooked for Wellington), and tho remainder are married, women who have come out to join their husbands. Tho capital possessed by the assisted passengers averages £SO each. Mr. A. 0. S. Darby, tlie immigration officer, was early on the scene attending to tho new arrivals, and tendering them advice. He states that tho health of the passengers is very good, and only one was detained tor further examination, and lie is not likely to cause any trouble, as lie possesses a return ticket. Three other passengers, whom the Health Officer requested to strip for a minute examination, were allowed to proceed. , “The general standard of the new arrivals,” said Mr. Darby, “is, if anything, above that of the usual arrivals, and indeed the stnnd>urd keeps steadily improving.”