DUTCHMEN ARRIVE TO WORK IN N.Z. DAIRY FACTORIES
AUCKLAND, Last Night (PA).— The first party of 55 Dutch immigrants to arrive in the country under the migration agreement between the Netherlands Government and the New Zealand Government arrived at Whenuapal on a K.L.M. aircraft this afternoon.
The immigrants, all single tnen, are under a two-year contract to work as directed by the department. ' Today's party will all go to immediate jobs in dairy factories throughout ’’e country. Thirty-one of the men will be employed in the Waikato, eight in Auckland, and the others will go to Taranaki, Northland, Nelson and Otago. Altogether 2000 skilled workers will be brought to New Zealand under the agreement. A 30-year-old soil investigator from Lisse, Arnold Koenen, voiced the opinion of all the party when he said New Zealand represented a change in life for the men. “There are little chances for us in Holland with so many people, and now there are none in Indonesia for us," he said. "We have come to New Zealand to make good.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 December 1950, Page 4
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