. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . of people that isrequired here is the actual working class,—men and women who are neither afraid norashamed to work, and not very particularwhat kind of work they turn their handsto. All such people are bound to bettertheir condition by coming here, not only asservants, working shorter hours and betterfed and paid than at home, but with theprospect of being either landowners or busi-ness people after a few years of toil: whatt
. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . of people that isrequired here is the actual working class,—men and women who are neither afraid norashamed to work, and not very particularwhat kind of work they turn their handsto. All such people are bound to bettertheir condition by coming here, not only asservants, working shorter hours and betterfed and paid than at home, but with theprospect of being either landowners or busi-ness people after a few years of toil: whatthey could never aspire to in the old coun-try. It is not the man or woman whoalways enjoyed a luxurious life in a com-fortable situation in the old country thatrealizes most the advantages of coming toa country like this; but the poor, hard-wrought man who could barely afford fromhis small earnings a sufficiency of the ne-cessaries of life to himself and his do not mean to say but the first man willmake more money here than in the oldcountry; but there is a considerable differ-ence between gratifying the mind witha heavy purse, and satisfying the era-. IMMIGRATION, 83 vings of a hungry appetite with a gooddinner. I cannot say much from my own experi-ence about the climate of this Province,owing to my not being here a whole season;but from what I have seen and learned fromthe most reliable sources, I consider itthoroughly adapted to British past winter has been very mild ; therehas been a great deal of rain, but no snowupon the plains. The nights are, in pro-portion, colder than the days, and thechanges more sudden than at home. I canneither say much upon the subject of land-purchasing, only that I see from the daUynewspapers so many hundreds of thousandsof acres being sold weekly, and the averageprice is about £2 per acre. The greaterpart of this Province is a vast plain, with-out wood, so that the land can easily beploughed and a crop got off the
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