IN PITEOUS PLIGHT
STRANDED NEW ZEALANDERS IN LONDON. HIGH COMMISSIONER’S WARNING The Minister for- Internal Affaire states that a large number of applications for financial assistance are being received in London by the High Commissioner from New Zealanders who have gone to England in the hope of obtaining employment, and have failed to do so. Some of the applicants are men who have worked their passages Home as seamen and stewards, and who, when they find it necessary to return because their means are exhausted, are unable to obtain .berths. The High Commissioner has communicated with the Prime Minister urging the desirability of shipping companies not signing on men except for return trips. Men are also warned against expecting to find work in Britain at present. Sir James Allen quotes the case of an ex-lieutenant in the New Zealand Army who was induced to return to England with his wife, being offered assistance by the latter’s people to obtain employment there. The man, who has his wife and two children to support, has been unable to get work, is now destitute, and has not the means to return to the Dominion.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11295, 22 August 1922, Page 5
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