MIGRANTS SAIL FOR N.Z.
BIG GROUP FROM BRITAIN (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 5. “The Times” says that more than 1000 British migrants are leaving Glasgow for New Zealand to-day in the Converted 13,Q00-ton lifter, Captain The migrants, whose passages are being paid by the New Zealand Government, include 429 people in family groups and 155 recruits for the New tealand services. _ The Captain Cook, Which is sailing Via Panama, is expected to reach Wellington about March 9. . The Captain Ceok, formerly the lifter Letitia, has been refitted at a jcost of £750.000 by the New Zealand fleyhtntient and will be employed in its aslisted migration programme. She will take four round voyages a year ana With another ship, the Affiarapoora, how being converted for the game serfrice. will carry more than 6000 settiers to New Zealand a year.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26648, 6 February 1952, Page 7
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