MIGRANTS FROM U.S.

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32367, 5 August 1970, Page 14

MIGRANTS FROM U.S.

Assistance Offered

(From Out Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, Aug. 4. New Zealand employers will be able to recruit staff in Western Europe and the United States soon, and to bring them into New Zealand under an extended assisted immigration scheme. This was confirmed by the Minister of Immigration (Mr Marshall) today in an answer to a written question by Mr R. P. B. Drayton (Lab., St Albans). Mr Drayton had asked what were the immigration targets over the next five years, and how they compared with National Development Conference targets. Mr Marshall said that there were no targets for net migration, but the Government had provided a programme which should substantially increase assisted and unassisted migration. The new subsidy scheme, he said, was selfregulating to the demands of employers for staff, and no limit had been placed on the number of migrants employers might sponsor. , “The more attractive conditions of the scheme have already led to an encouraging increase in applications for migrants from Britain,” Mr Marshall said. “Since the scheme was announced last February, employers have sponsored 948 applications covering 2709 people, compared with 108 applications for 276 people in the same period last year.”