EMIGRATION TO N.Z.
Bledisloe Fund Area Widened
A trust set up in Britain by a former New Zealand GovernorGeneral (Lord Bledisloe) has had its scope enlarged to enable persons from a wider area to receive assistance for emigration to the Dominion. Advice to this effect has been received by “The Press” in a letter from Lord Bledisloe.
About 12 years ago Lord Bledisloe vested in the Charity Commissioners a small fund to enable persons of good character to draw on it for assistance in helping them to pay for sea passages, or meet initial settlement expenses on emigration to New Zealand. The fund was available to persons living in the Gloucestershire parishes of Lydney (where Lord Beldisloe lives) and Aylburton. Conditions were that the applicants had to serve in either of the two world wars or that their forbears had fought in the war. As only three persons have so far benefited by the BledisloeNew Zealand War Memorial Trust it has been decided to include the other parishes of Alvington, Woolaston. Tidenham, St. Briavels, Hewelsfield and Brockweir in the scope of the fund.
The alteration was made at the request of Lord Bledisloe.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28253, 15 April 1957, Page 8
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