Immigration
About 100 letters are received weekly in Wellington from prospective immigrants by the National Employment Service. Most of them are from Britain, but a good proportion are from Europeans, who, after some years in India, are anxious to emigrate to New Zealand. Fairly frequent enquiries are also received from South Africa and Australia, with a few from Canada and the United States. The applications cover most trades and professions including medical practitioners. Skilled occupations predominate, and a large proportion of the enquiries are from men engaged in various brandies of engineering. Very few enquiries have been received from men in unskilled occupations. Women aDplicants include typists, stenographers and domestic workers. In their renlies to the enquiries the officers of the National Employment Service give as many details as possible about economic conditions and housing in New Zealand, as well as about employment. In the meantime for most Deople there is little prospect of immediate emigration owii&. to shipping difficulties.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, 19 February 1947, Page 3
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160Immigration Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, 19 February 1947, Page 3
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