dutch migrants FOR N.Z.

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26510, 27 August 1951, Page 7

dutch migrants FOR N.Z.

PARTY OF 831 LEAVES AMSTERDAM Sec. 10 pun.) LONDON, August 25. ®, Amsterdam correspondent first Dutch migrant ship Zealand, the Zuiderkruis, left “te afternoon with 831 migrants. seen ofl by Mr W. J. Zealand High CommisJ*° n ® r in Britain, Mr A. t 7 Campbell, Jordans chief information officer, trf’cfZ 411 Ehijn, the Dutch Secretary SJSate f°r Social Affairs, and the ijiteh Director-General of Shipping “J, *♦ J-. Oyevaar). ine migrants comprise 259 single S'? J®d women between the ages of * 351 whose passages were either jjrtly or wholly paid by the Dutch New Zealand Governments. The of each is stamped with an JrV Permit valid only as long as holder is unmarried. All the 259 ~“ffants have jobs waiting for them by the New Zealand authorities, Z,r*,bui Iding, painting, engineering, blacksmiths’ trades, while the *•* will be nurses and factory workZ* °r go into domestic service in tolS.and hospitals. The remaining migrants are either joining relaand friends in New Zealand or to ObS they have f° un< * ®r Jordan said he regarded it as fortunate for his country that SP > fine group was going there. He “W.ne went to New Zealand 47 years a migrant with mixed feelings J sadness and hope” but they could wiraake the same progress as ne had. mrS?®. them not to forget their 2*°S er l an d and always be proud of Jordan added: “But I hope you jmi also be proud of your new coun*y and that New Zealand will be of you.” J?- van Rhijn said that 98 Dutch Slants went to New Zealand in and 503 in 1949, but about 3000 4 k B° ne this year. ABout 90 per cent, of the emigrants going to New Zealand because SS? »®e no future in their jobs in 2™®d. Most of the single men have Sy o * in the Dutch Army in Indonesia many of the single girls have also M m Indonesia for many years. of Salvation Army Chief. — fffjjfissioner Alfred G. Cunningham, IS® of staff of the Salvation Army gy. 1939 to 1943, and international S‘*~ry for Europe and the Domm--3* m 1931, died in Kent to-day, aged g-He retired in 1943. Commissioner declined nomination in 2? for the post of general in succesr® to General Evangeline Booth. — *®°on, August 25. kJ®,Ernest Clark Dead.— The death of Sir Ernest Clark, GovTasmania from 1933 to 1945, London, August 26.