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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23764, 9 October 1942, Page 4

Typing Classes for Armed Forces Reporting to the Ashburton Technical High School Board last evening, the principal of the school (Mr W. Crawford) said that a special typing class, covering four hours’ instruction each week, had been formed at the school for members of the armed forces. Eighteen students attended the class. Auckland’s First Immigrant Ships A century ago to-day the Duchess of Argyle and the Jane Gifford, Auckland’s first two immigrant ships, dropped anchor in Waitemata Harbour, some four months after leaving the Clyde. They brought 535 passengers, nearly all hardy Scots folk whose descendants, numbering many thousands, have contributed much to the building of present-day New Zealand. Auckland had been established as the capital of the colony in September, 1840, and two years later its population had grown to nearly 2000 by accretions from Great Britain, Australia, Port Nicholson and the Bay of Islands, but it was not until the middle of 1842 that any organised effort to send out settlers was made in the Homeland.