800 Displaced Persons For Dominion

Chronicle (Levin), 30 April 1949, Page 3

800 Displaced Persons For Dominion

WELLINGTON, April 29. People from the Baltie coiratries will comprise the majority of a draft of some 900 displaced persons who are to embark in the Dundalk Bay leaving Trieste about May 18 for New Zealand. Other nationalities ineluded are Ukrainians, Hungarians, Poles, Yugoslavs and Czechs. The work of seieeting displaced persons in Europe for rasettlement in New Zealand was on the point of completio'n, said the Minister of Immigration this afternoon. Cabled advice had just been received that the International Eefugee Organisatior.s had made arrangements for the whole party coming to New Zealand to embark on the Dundalk Bay. Initially New Zealand had agreed to accept 1000 displaced persons and had requested that this total should be made up of certain catergories, said Mr McLagan. Provisional figures supplied by the New Zealand selection mission indicateJ that in the main it was possible to secure the types requested, but some variation in catergories had to be authorised when it was apparent that single women and orphan children wero not available in *the numbers required. The fmal composition of the draft was expected to be 130 single women for hospital employment, etc., 170 single men for heavy work of nationai importauce, 100 family groups comprising a man and a wife witli one or twc children, making an estimated total of 320, 200 widows aeeompanied by oue child each for domestic employment iu institutions, 'etc., 80 elderlv persons anl six unaccompanied children.