✨ Immigration and Provincial Council Resolutions
ing, industrious families of good character, as are held out to immigrants from the home country. I enclose herewith for your information the terms upon which immigration to this province is being conducted. Should a sufficient number of such families, or others as you could recommend, be willing to remove as to fill a ship, I shall be glad to charter a vessel on purpose; this would come much cheaper in the end to the people themselves, unless arrangements could be made with the Coleman Company to remove them at a reasonable rate.
I have directed the head of the immigration department here to send you a list of the kind of labor most in request.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent.
To His Honor the Superintendent
of Taranaki.
TERMS ON WHICH EMIGRANTS ARE LANDED IN OTAGO.
1st. All emigrants for an assisted passage to Otago must be persons of good character, sound health, and must belong to those trades that are common in a new country.
2nd. Assisted emigrants must grant a bill for the repayment of their passage money, within one year after landing if single, and within two years, if married.
3rd. As there are four vessels on the way to Otago from Britain with emigrants, a large proportion of whom are tradesmen, I would only advise persons to come from Taranaki, who belong to agricultural or pastoral pursuits.
4th. All applicants above 45 years of age must pay their own passage.
JAMES ADAMS,
Emigration Agent.
Superintendent’s Office,
Marlborough, 9th August, 1860.
Sir,—I have the honor to send you a resolution unanimously passed by the Provincial Council of this province; and I beg to assure our fellow-settlers at Taranaki that we truly and sincerely sympathise with them upon their misfortunes.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
WILLIAM ADAMS,
Superintendent.
To His Honor the Superintendent
of Taranaki.
Provincial Council Chamber,
Province of Marlborough, 20th July, 1860.
“That His Honor the Superintendent be requested to place upon the Estimates the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds, to be transmitted to the Treasurer of the Taranaki Aid Committee, Nelson, and applied by him in such manner as he may think proper in aid of such persons in Nelson, belonging to Taranaki, who may have suffered during the native war; and that His Honor the Superintendent be requested to write a letter of condolence to the Superintendent of Taranaki expressive of the sympathies of this Council with the unfortunate inhabitants of that province.”
Printed by G. W. Woon for the Provincial Government.
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Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1860, No 9
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🛂 Immigration Assistance Offer from Dunedin Superintendent
🛂 ImmigrationImmigration, Otago, Assisted Passage, Taranaki Refugees
- James MacAndrew, Superintendent
🛂 Terms for Emigrants Landing in Otago
🛂 ImmigrationEmigration, Otago, Assisted Passage, Terms
- James Adams, Emigration Agent
🏘️ Sympathy Letter from Marlborough Superintendent
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government9 August 1860
Sympathy, Taranaki, Native War, Provincial Council
- William Adams, Superintendent
🏘️ Provincial Council Resolution for Taranaki Aid
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government20 July 1860
Taranaki Aid, Native War, Provincial Council, Resolution