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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27060, 20 April 1949, Page 6

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NINE HUNDRED BALTS SELECTED NEW HOMES IN DOMINION Special Correspondent WELLINGTON, Apl. 19.| The selection of about 900 Balts to come to New Zealand from displaced persons’ camps in Europe has now been completed by the New Zealand selection mission. They constitute the Dominion’s quota under the International Refugee Organisation's scheme for finding new homes for displaced persons. The new migrants will leave an Italian port in May on their way to New Zealand in the Mozzafari sailing under charter to the organisation. The New Zealand selection mission sought chiefly single women up to the age of 40 for domestic and mental hospital work, but they were not easy to find as other countries earlier in the field had chosen persons in this group Accordingly New Zealand agreed to take a number of single women with their elderly*relatives who can do light work. There will also be about 100 mothers with children. The selection mission’s doctor, Dr J Bartrum, is quoted by the International Refugee Organisation as stating that the standard of health of the displaced persons is extremely good. The migrants are Balts who have been in displaced persons’ camps in Germany Austria and Bavaria since 1945. The next task of the New Zealand selection mission, which is headed bv Mr J. E. Ellison, the former assistant director of immigration, is to find its quota of 100 orphan children. '