IMMIGRATION POLICY
INITIAL STAGE INDICATED SINGLE MEN AND WOMEN SOUGHT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 20. Immediate consideration will be given by the Government to the findings and recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Population, which took evidence and deliberated during the Announcing this to the Labour Party conference, the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser), said the Government had given much consideration to the question of immigration. The acute shortage of workers in so many New Zealand industries had made it necessary to seek at least 1000 single women and men from the United Kingdom who might be willing to come to the Dominion as immigrants. This would be 'the initial stage of the Government’s immigration policy. The housing problem made it unwise to arrange for the migration of families from Britain at present, but arrangements would have to begin for a progressively expanding scheme of immigration from the Mother Country and other countries of the United Nations within the next few years, when the housing scarcity would be overcome.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24907, 21 June 1946, Page 8
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