MIGRANTS FOR NEW ZEALAND
BIG DRAFT LEAVING GLASGOW
(From the London Correspondent of "The Press”) LONDON, January 11. New Zealand’s new High Commissioner in London, Mr Clifton Webb, Q.C., will make his first official journey out of the city later this month when he travels to Glasgow to say good-bye to 1072 Government-assisted immigrants for the Dominion. They are being sent to New Zealand in the Captain Cook, leaving Glasgow on January 25. Mr and Mrs Webb will travel to Scotland by rail. The present immigrant draft is the biggest to be sent to New Zealand and is made up mainly of tradesmen and their families. There are 744 people in this group, 212 single men and 116 single women. When the Captain Cook completes the present voyage to New Zealand she will be taken over until October by her owners, the Scottish Donaldson Line, for the North Atlantic run. The ship will then revert to New Zealand charter for further immigration vovages. She has been under Government charter since early in 1952.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27563, 21 January 1955, Page 8
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