Pages tagged with: assisted immigration

A gathering at the Wellington club rooms of the New Settlers' Association. Includes description from a new settler.

New Zealand is a country of immigrants. Wave after wave of peoples have settled here: Polynesian, British, European, Asian.

The Labour Department was responsible for setting up and administering the assisted immigration scheme

The Immigration Branch needed to advertise the assisted immigration scheme as widely as possible and mostly used the classified sections of British newspapers.

The Captain Cook, along with the Captain Hobson, brought assisted immigrants to New Zealand via the Panama Canal from 1952.

After they arrived, each assisted immigrant was given a letter of welcome from Bert Bockett, the Secretary for Labour, which outlined the assistance which the Department would give them and provided details of the jobs in New Zealand to which they had been appointed, along with their transport and accommodation arrangements.

English immigrant women from the Atlantis in Wellington, 1951

The Labour Department was responsible for setting up and administering the assisted immigration scheme.

An official from the Labour Department gives employment advice to new assisted immigrant arrivals on the Monowai, 1949

Between 1947 and 1975, 77,000 women, children and men arrived from Great Britain under the assisted immigration scheme. The first draft of 118 immigrants arrived in Auckland on the New Zealand Shipping Company liner Rangitata.

The corridor lounge on the port side of the Captain Cook.

A Scottish immigrant woman describes playing indoor activities and basketball and walking in the bush with friends. Extract from Journey for Three, NZ National Film Unit Laboratories,1950.