N.Z. Fifth On Refugee List
Last year New Zealand was one of the five major receiving countries for the World Council of Churches-assisted refugees and migrants. Migrants from more than 30 countries were helped by the World Council last year to settle in 21 countries. The largest number (6358) went to Australia. The United States took 2039, Canada 268, Brazil 155, and New ealand 152. More than half the migrants who came to New Zealand were Europeans from Hong Kong (85) and there were 19 Chinese from Hong Kong. Nineteen refugees came from Greece, 15 from Egypt, six from Italy, four from Belgium, two from France and two from Germany.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660117.2.201
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume CV, Issue 30960, 17 January 1966, Page 17
Word count
Tapeke kupu
110N.Z. Fifth On Refugee List Press, Volume CV, Issue 30960, 17 January 1966, Page 17
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in