NOMINATION OF IMMIGRANTS INTRODUCED BY N.Z.

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1948, Page 8

NOMINATION OF IMMIGRANTS INTRODUCED BY N.Z.

WELLINGTON. April 23.

Wide extension of the Government immigration scheme was announced tc-dav bv the Minister of Immigration, the Hon. A. McLaean). While it will still be necessarv. in the meantime, to restrict the scheme to fit single- persons between the ages of 20 and 35. within these limits practically all catagories of essential productive and servicing workers will now be accepted from the United Kingdom, either for a free or assisted passage. A nomination scheme will also be introduced immediately.

Mr McLagan said that ex-service-men would receive free passages and civilians would be reauired to contribute only £lO towards the cost of their passage. Other conditions of the scheme, principally the contract to accept employment allocated by the department, would be continued. LARGER NUMBERS

“Now that further shipping is in sight, it is possible to accept a larger n umbei’ of persons in a wider range of occupational categories, subject to the availability of private boarding accommodation,” said the Minister. “The Government is satisfied from the experience it has gained with the drafts * already here, that, there is reasonable scope for the absorption of our kinsmen in private homes, more particularly in secondary and smaller centres.

“A nomination scheme is to be introduced immediately enabling private people and employers to nominate one or more United Kingdom residents known to them, but employers’ nominations will not be^ accepted where faith with the Government is broken by advertising for workers in the United Kingdom. “The only other condition of the ncminatton scheme will be that the nominator has or can arrange accommodation for his nominees and that the department is satisfied that there is scope for their absorption,” added the Mnister.