✨ Immigration Commissioners Report
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
J. C. RICHMOND, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XI. | NELSON, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1863. | NO. 17.
Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
June 15, 1863.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Report and Returns for general information.
J. C. RICHMOND,
Provincial Secretary.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF IMMIGRATION OF THE PROVINCE OF NELSON.
During the past year the Commissioners sent for 192 persons, including 60 Females from Lancashire, suitable for domestic servants, who where to be brought out under the following arrangement proposed by the Bishop of Nelson, viz.—They were to be selected by the Rev. J. E. Hornby, Rector of Bury, who, in conjunction with two other gentlemen, it was proposed should make all the necessary arrangements for their shipment, provide them with outfits, and appoint a Matron to take charge of them on the Voyage; the passage to be advanced by the Commissioners, and bonds taken from the Emigrants to repay the same within three years after landing at Nelson. Mr. Hornby however, reports that there is very little probability of his being able to carry out his Lordship's proposal, as it is difficult to induce respectable females to leave England without their relatives.
It having been reported to the Commissioners, that upwards of 200 Females who had been assisted by the Otago Government to immigrate were in the Depot, at Dunedin, unable many of them to obtain situations, a letter was addressed to the Superintendent of Otago, asking if his Government wished to be relieved of any of them. To this application his Honor replied, that far from wishing to be relieved, the Government had sent to Britain for more.
The Commissioners have also communicated with Miss Rye, asking to have 30 females of the class above referred to, brought out to this Province, as early as possible, on the same terms as those brought out for the Otago Government; and, the Commissioners are waiting the arrival of that lady in Nelson, to make further arrangements for keeping up the introduction of a class of immigrants much required.
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1863, No 17
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🛂 Report of the Commissioners of Immigration of the Province of Nelson
🛂 Immigration15 June 1863
Immigration, Commissioners, Nelson, Domestic servants, Lancashire, Otago
- J. E. Hornby (Reverend), Rector of Bury, tasked with selecting immigrants
- Rye (Miss), Communicated with regarding bringing female immigrants
- J. C. Richmond, Provincial Secretary