Emigrants Coming On The Mataroa
Reeeived Wednesdav, 7 p.m. LONDON, May 4. Tiie Shaw Havill liner Mataroa sailed vesterday for New Zealand with a large number of emigrants to New Zealand trayelling in ^pecial accomgjodation, and all under the New Zealand Government sehenie. They include 180 singie voung men and women. The majority of tiie women are or will be nurses, and every man is a eraftsman. \ arious reasons are given by emigrants who were interviewed for goiner to New Zealand. A shoemaker from Ayrshire said: "I expect better social and econcimie condjtions out there." Two sisters from Kettering, one a taxi driver and the other a telephonist, said: "We are not red up with England, but we are voung, and think we will get on." A Glasgow telephone engineer said: "1 have lost faith in the Government, and I 'm f ed up with the apathy of the people here. " A London carpenter, with a wife and a three-year-old. daughter, said: "We have saved- up £500, which is worth £700 in New Zealand. We have sold up everythirig, and^I have two introductions for. work in New Zealand." A London woman whose ^ liusband is already in theDominion, said: "The children decided [ us. We think it will b'e easier to bring theni up there, but I won't say New Zealand is better than my own country from any other point of view. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1948, Page 5
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