NETHERLANDS EVACUEES
p.a. new Plymouth, Dec. 20. Buildings at the New Plymouth airport which were occupied by the Royal New Zealand Air Force until recently have been taken over by the Netherlands Government, and will be used to accommodate Dutch families who will arrive in New Zealand next month from internment camps in the East Indies. A party representative of the Netherlands Government, including Mr. J. B. Smythe, New Zealand representative for the Netherlands East Indies Trade Commissioner for Australia, and Mr. Jan van Hoist Pellekaan, has inspected the buildings, which Mr. Smythe described as the most suitable he had seen in New Zealand for the purpose. The number of evacuees who will be accommodated at New Plymouth in the early stages of the scheme is not yet known, but it is expected that by the middle of the year there will be between 300 and 400 persons living there.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 9
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150NETHERLANDS EVACUEES Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 9
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