How Immigrants Will Be Allocated

Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1948, Page 2

How Immigrants Will Be Allocated

WELLINGTON, Jan. 30. The district allocation of drafts of Grovernment assisted immigrants arriving in Wellington in the Atlautis abuut February 0 and the Rangitata about Febrnary 9 were Hnnounced todav by the Minister of Immigratiou ( M r AicLagan). Some 177 men and 259 women have been allocated to various centres of tjie North Island, and 181 men and S4 women to various centres of the South Island. The Minister said the priiue determiaing factors in the allocation had bcen the ratio of local vacancies to total Dominion requirements and the availability of boarding accommodation. Bcsides the more substantia] quota allotted the South Island on this occasion, said Mr McLagan, there were two other gratifying features, flrstly, that substantial nunibers of hospital workers arriving in the two ships made it possibie for the department to provide some relief for the hospitals of the smaller centres, and secondly the ctrrival of the Jirst batch of tradesluen for eiiiployment at the Public Works State hydro-eiectric development works. Tlie allocatious are as follow, the iiumbers of men being given iirst and Ihe nuiuber of women in parentheses: Whangarei, nil (4); Auckland, -14 (72); Hamilton, 31 (3); Paeroa, 1 (4); Rotorua, 12 (2); Napier, 2 (4); Hasting. nil (6); Taumarunui, 15 (3) ;' Palmerston North, 2 (G) ; Masterton, nil (5) ; M anganui, nil' (6,1 ; Wellington, 69 (117); Lower Uutt, 1 (27); Nelson, 11 (3); Blenheim, nil (4); Christchurch, 53 (43); Ashburton, nil (two); Timaru, 10 (l); Dunedin, 52 (15); Invercargill, 5 (7); Westport, 22 (3); Greymouth, 28 (6). ______