✨ 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 hereunto annexed, 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. XII. NELSON, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1864. No. 14.
Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
June 2, 1864.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the following Reports and Returns for general information.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Chief Clerk.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS
OF IMMIGRATION OF THE PROVINCE
OF NELSON.
In accordance with the provisions of the Immigration Ordinance the Commissioners transmit herewith for the information of the Provincial Council, a Statement of their Accounts for the year ended 31st March last; also a Statement of their Liabilities for the current year.
The Commissioners also report as follows:
- The undermentioned Vessels arrived during the past year with Government Immigrants for this Province, viz.: Bard of Avon, Cashmere, Magna Bona, Anne Dymes.
The Immigrants by the above vessels numbered 187, and the passage money was at the rate of £16 per adult. Of this number 83 were nominated by their friends in the Colony, 85 were Cornish miners with their families, and 19 were female servants sent out by the National Colonial Emigration Society and Miss Rye, under the arrangements referred to in the Commissioners last report.
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During Miss Rye's visit to Nelson the Commissioners entered into a further arrangement with that lady for the introduction of 30 female servants, in addition to the number already shipped under the previous arrangement, on the following terms viz.,—The whole of the passage money to be advanced by the Commissioners, bonds being taken from the Immigrants to repay the same on the understanding that if they remain two years in the Province, one half the amount will be remitted.
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On referring to the Balance Sheet it will be seen that out of the £5,000 voted by Council in Session X. for Immigration, only £1,000 was paid over to the Commissioners' Account, the Government, owing to a deficiency in the Estimated Revenue, being unable to grant a larger amount; the Commissioners therefore did not consider it prudent to give effect to the resolution passed by the Council by carrying out a more liberal system of Immigration.
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A contract has been entered into with Messrs. Shaw, Saville, and Co., for the conveyance of Government Emigrants from London to Nelson during the year 1864, at the rate of £16 per adult, and should the number by any one ship exceed 40 a reduction of ten shillings per adult is to be made. The first ship dispatched under this contract is the Violet, which may be expected about the end of July with 60 Immigrants.
J. P. ROBINSON,
Superintendent.
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1864, No 14
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🛂 Report of the Commissioners of Immigration of the Province of Nelson
🛂 Immigration2 June 1864
Immigration, Commissioners Report, Nelson, Shipping, Emigrants, Miss Rye, National Colonial Emigration Society
- Miss Rye (Miss), Arranged introduction of female servants
- J. P. Robinson, Superintendent of Nelson
- J. C. Richmond, Provincial Secretary
- Alfred Greenfield, Chief Clerk
- J. P. Robinson, Superintendent