 Towns had trouble finding men to work in his various enterprises, as did other employers in New South Wales.A Coolie Immigration Society was established in Sydney in September 1842 to lobby the government to remove restrictions on importing labourers from India.The ship "Orwell" arrived in Sydney 23 March 1846 with 56 male and 13 female “coolies”, recruited for Robert Towns in Calcutta, supposedly to work as “domestic servants”.