767 MIGRANTS ARRIVE

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26221, 19 September 1950, Page 3

767 MIGRANTS ARRIVE

ASSISTED SETTLERS FROM BRITAIN (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. September 18. Because the immigration authorities were unable to fill all the berths with assisted settlers, 103 ordinary passengers were among 896 persons who arrived at Wellington on the Atlantis from Southampton to-day. The 767 settlers (490 men and 277 women) were building tradesmen, forestry workers, nurses, typists, factory workers, farm hands, and tradesmen for Government departments and other workers for essential jobs. Wellington is to get the largest proportion of the newcomers—2ls. Auckland will be next with 130, followed by Christchurch (82). Dunedin (78), and Lower Hutt (35). The remainder will go to other parts of New Zealand. The settlers include Mr and Mrs John Horn, of Aberdeenshire, the first married couple to come to New Zealand under the Government’s recently announced extension oi the assisted immigration scheme. They will go to Dunedin. The passengers included 26 former Royal Air Force men, who have enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force for terms of five and eight years. Two men who have arrived to take un herd testing. Mr Peter Hallifax, of Shropshire, and Mr Geoffrey Whyte, of Devon, hope eventually to obtain farms of their own. Mr Hallifax»»said he thought that many British farm workers were anxious to come to New Zealand, but were unable to make up their minds to take the plunge.