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2. Assisted passages will be afforded only to persons of such trades or callings as may from time to time be determined by the Agent-General in England, acting under the instructions of the Government.

3. No person will be allowed any assistance unless he or she shall have been approved by the Agent-General in England.

4. No single man above the age of 40 years, no person above the age of 50 years, unless a member of a large family, and no person above 60 under any circumstances, will be allowed assistance.

5. All persons receiving assistance must be of sound mind, good health, and good character.

6. Free passages will be provided for single women accustomed to domestic service, who can bring satisfactory proof of good character, and who are between the ages of 15 and 35.

7. In certain other cases free passages will be given, of the conditions of which the Agent-General in England will from time to time be advised.

8. The rate of passage money to the Province is fixed, until further notice, at £15, and promissory notes will be made in accordance with that rate.

REGULATIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF IMMIGRANTS INTO THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY ON THE NOMINATION OF PERSONS RESIDENT THEREIN.

1. Any person resident in this Province of Canterbury desirous of nominating friends in Europe for passages to that Province, may do so by paying two-fifths of the amount of passage money in cash to the Provincial Immigration Officer, Christchurch or Timaru, or by drawing a bill, in the form below, payable to Her Majesty the Queen, to the extent of three-fifths of the passage money, accepted by a substantial householder also resident in that Province, to be approved by and deposited with the Superintendent as sufficient security for the same.

   A copy of this bill, or the receipt for the cash payment is to be transmitted to the person who is desirous of immigrating into the Province, and being by him presented to the Agent-General in England, will be received by him in lieu of a cash payment in full. The copy of the bill is returned by the Agent-General to the Colony upon the embarkation of the person nominated, and the bill itself becomes due and payment is enforced thirty days after the arrival of the person for whose passage it was drawn and deposited. But if the person nominated declines to make use of the copy of the bill or receipt thus sent him, he should at once inform the Agent-General, so that the bill may be cancelled, or, if a cash payment has been made, that the money may be refunded on the return of the receipt to the Colony.

   Form of Bill.

   (Stamp.)

   [Place of making and date.]

   £...............

   Three days after...... sight pay to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in the Colony of New Zealand.......... the sum of........ pounds........ shillings for value received.

   To Mr. C. D.,
   Grocer,
   Christchurch.

   Accepted.........
   Signed...........
   Signature of Drawer...... A. B.

   NOTE.—Stamp duty to the proper amount. Impressed stamp forms should always be used, so as to avoid any question as to cancellation.

2. The rate of passage money to the Province is fixed, until further notice, at £15, and cash payments are made or bills prepared in accordance with that rate.

3. Nominated passages will be afforded only to persons of such trades or callings as may from time to time be determined by the Provincial Immigration Officer, acting under the instructions of the Government; but persons of all classes will be able to assist their friends to emigrate to the Colony by undertaking the payment of the whole of the passage money.

4. Free passages will be provided for single women accustomed to domestic service, who can bring satisfactory proof of good character, and who are between the ages of 15 and 35.

5. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Agent-General in England will have power to refuse passages where the intending immigrants are in ill health or in any way unfitted, according to his judgment, to undertake the voyage.

6. Applications for nominated passages of families and single men, and for nominated free passages of single women, under clause 4, as above, are to be addressed to the Immigration Office, Christchurch or Timaru, in the following form, viz.:—

   I, the undersigned, hereby apply for a nominated passage to Christchurch [or Timaru] under the Regulations of 5th July, 1871, for

   Name

   Age

   Calling

   Address in full..................................