ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 4

ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS

The first of the assisted immigrants for the building trade in New Zealand, who left three weeks ago on the Rangitiki. number 54. states "The Post's" London correspondent. Of the total 27 are carpenters, six are painters, nine are plasterers, ten are bricklayers, and two are electrical wiremen. One or two of the men who had been accepted to go to New Zealand decided against sailing at the last minute. One reason given was employment in London; another was marriage. . Approximately 50 men are expected to leave England by the Rangitata in June. They will be followed by another 50 on the Rangitane and Arawa, both sailing in July, and 50 on the Rimutaka, leaving in August.'

One optimistic ratepayer in . Lower Hutt has written to the Mayor (Mr. J. W. Andrews) with the intention of securing building sections in a novel manner. This ratepayer, a woman, said Mr. Andrews at a meeting of th* Wellington City and Suburban Highways Board this morning, stated that she understood Lower Hutt -was to b* r'epla'nned and wanted to know if she could secure some of ,the "little bits" left over so that she could fill them in and use them as sections, ■ '