N.Z. House Kept Busy By Emigration Inquiries

Press, Volume C, Issue 29472, 25 March 1961, Page 10

N.Z. House Kept Busy By Emigration Inquiries

Applications for assisted emigration to New Zealand, provisionally approved by New Zealand House in London in February, reached a higher total than in any month since the assisted emigration scheme began at the end of the Second World War, the Labour Department reports. New Zealand House is dealing with a record number of 700 letters of inquiry daily, and receives 600 applications a month from eligible people. The experiment is to be tried of bringing out married men with not more than two children, and finding employment and accommodation for them while they are on the way out rather than insisting .on nomination or contract as previously. The first to be brought out on this scheme are 10 families now being recruited in Britain and five in Holland. If the move is successful, it will be extended. The scheme is at present restricted to carpenters, farm workers, engineering tradesmen. printing tradesmen, and motor mechanics.

Another new departure is the planned recruitment of single unskilled workers under 35 without nomination. Up to now. such persons have not been taken except where a job has been waiting for them.

The free-passage immigration scheme has recently been extended to single workers from Denmark. West Germany, Switzerland and Austria. A new circular has been issued by the Labour Department giving up-to-date details of the various schemes.