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2. Steerage passages by steamer or free passes by railway will be provided for Emigrants, when engaged, to enable them to proceed to the district of their employers.

3. Full information as to the current rate of wages can be obtained at the Depots in the Colony, and lists of persons requiring servants, &c ., are kept there.

Assisted Passages.

The Government grant assisted passages to Western Australia upon the following terms, clauses VIII. to XIV. of the regulations relating to free passages also applying to this class of passages, with the exception that medical attendance is not given free.

Assisted passages will be granted by the Government of Western Australia, until further notice, upon the following conditions and regulations:—

I. The classes eligible are Married and Single Farm Labourers and Artisans under 45 years of age, also Single Women or Widows (without children), such as Cooks, Housemaids, Nurses, General Servants, Dairymaids, &c., who are not under 16 nor over 35 years of age-who are nominated by their friends in Western Australia, provided such nominations have been approved by the Government in the Colony. In all cases they must be sober, industrious, of good moral character, of sound mind, free from bodily defect or deformity, in good health, able to perform the duties of the occupation to which they belong, and must be going to the Colony to reside and settle there, and to work in their respective occupations, and have been vaccinated or had the small pox. For each Emigrant over 12 years of age, £6 10s. for passage, in addition to the ship's outfit money referred to in Clause XI., and for children between the ages of 12 and 1 half this amount will have to be paid by the person nominating the Emi­grants, or by the Emigrants themselves.

II. Persons who have resided in Western Australia are not in any case eligible for assisted passages, nor persons in the habitual receipt of parish relief; children under 12 years of age without their parents, husbands without their wives or wives without their husbands (unless in the last three instances the parents, wife or husband be in Western Australia), or single women who have illegitimate children.

III. In filling up the Form of Application the Applicant must be careful to give full particulars as to the nature of his occupation, to furnish all other necessary information, and to obtain proper Signatures to the Certificates attached to the Application Form. The Applicant's proposal will not be considered until the application is correctly and completely filled in.

IV. No person will be granted an assisted passage unless he shall have been approved by the Agent-General. No single or married man above the age of 45