FOUR MONTHS’ REST IN N.Z.
rEOTLE FROM NETHERLANDS INDIES Wellington. Nov. 30. Eight hundred to 1000 former internees in Japanese camps in the Netherlands East Indies will arrive in Auckland about 15th December as an instalment in a scheme by which the Netherlands Indies Welfare Organisation for evacuees will spend more than £1.000.000 giving former internees. at least half of whom arc children. four months’ rest in the Dominion. Mr J. Van Holst Pellekaan. Netherlands Indies Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, said the evacuees would be spread throughout the Dominion’s already pressing housing problem. 700 going to a former American camp in the Auckland Domain. The cases were by no means the worst, needing rest rather than medical care, but all were dentally unfit. They had signed a written undertaking to return to the Indies on the expiration of the four months. A similar scheme is in progress in Australia. costing over £2.000.000 and 1000 cases requiring urgent medical attention are on their way to Holland shortly by the Oranje.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 1 December 1945, Page 4
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