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OVERSEAS ARRIVALS AT WHENUAPAI P.A. AUCKLAND,, May 11. People from the ends of the earth arriving by air at Whenuapai—often soon after dawn—pass through a chilly doorway into New Zealand. Confronting them as they stumble down the steps from the plane is a roped-off lane leading to the side door of a wooden shack. Inside, the shack is cold and bare. Publicised improvements to the building have left the regular inhabitants cold—literally and figuratively. For airways passengers it is their first introduction to the Dominion—through a small, humble door which bears on its weather-beaten boards the legend “Out of bounds to all ranks.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26769, 12 May 1948, Page 4
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105CHEERLESS WELCOME Otago Daily Times, Issue 26769, 12 May 1948, Page 4
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