CHILD MIGRANTS
AUSTRALIAN PLAN 51,000 To Be Brought From Britain N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 2.30. CANBERRA, this day. The cost of Commonwealth Child Migration Plan, under which 51,000 children will be brought to Australia in three years, would be between £20,000,000 and £30,000,000, it was officially stated. This would cover children's passages to Australia and costs in caring for them to the working age when they would be absorbed into industry. The child migrants would be dispersed in all States. Garden homes lor their early education would probably be converted military establishments hear large towns. When the children reached secondary school age they would be placed in country centres. It is also announced that the Commonwealth Government has forwarded its plans for adult migration from Britain to Australia to the British Government which has not yet formulated its policy on this matter. . . Australian proposals on British adult migration include demobilisation here of British servicemen wishing to stay in Australia after Japan's defeat.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1944, Page 6
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