ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6543, 23 July 1948, Page 5

ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS

ALLOCATION IN WAIKATO DISTRICT VARIOUS TRADESMEN EMPLOYED There are 76 males and 39 females at present under the assisted immigration scheme who are being allocated for employment in Waikato districts, said Mr A. J. Denz, chairman of the Waikato Immigration Welfare Committee, last week. He added that many of them were skilful artisans, and the groups comprised young single people, a majority of them exservice personnel, who had gone to hospitals, coal mines, and hydroelectric works, where accommodation is available. Few householders were able to offer boarding accommodation, but board had been found for a number of the new arrivals. The Waikato Welfare Committee was now leaving the arranging of private board to employers. employees’ organisations, and local bodies or organisations, continued Mr Denz. The Government was being approached either to build or acquire premises suitable for a hostel in Hamilton for accommodating immigrants and other labour. Allocations already made include 48 tradesmen to hydro-electric works, 26 as coal-mine trainees, 3 domestic, 4 hospital nurse trainees, 28 mental hospital nurses, 1 shorthand-typist, 2 mental hospital cooks, 1 fitter and turner, and 1 farm hand. Of the 113 new arrivals 17 have been transferred to other districts.