New Zealanders still going to Britain

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33424, 4 January 1974, Page 10

New Zealanders still going to Britain

(Sw Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, January 3. Britain’s deepening economic gloom seems to have done nothing to deter hundreds of New Zealanders from planning trips and working holidays to the United Kingdom.

Last year the British High Commission in Wellington issued 545 entry permits to the United Kingdom. An official said today that immigration officers had not noticed any slackening of interest in trips to Britain lately. Many of those planning trips would be hoping to find temporary jobs there—in spite of heavy unemployment i and the three-day working week imposed bv the British Government. The official said that he did not know how aware were New Zealanders about the economic crisis in Bn-

In April '■{ last year—just before the start of the British summer—the High Commission issued 351 entry perIn December the figure had fallen to 194—but this was ihe norma! seasonal drop. He aaid that he expected a big

increase in the number of inquiries next month. But he said that the High Commission did not normally receive many inquiries from New Zealanders wanting to settle permanently in Britain.