Child Of Five Among Next Migrants To N.Z.
Received Tuesday, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, October 10. Twenty-one British children mierating to New Zealand will sail on Tuesday in the Rimutaka. They comnrise the fifth party of British children to leave Britain under the New Zealand Government's child migration scheme. Already 105 British youngsters have gone to New Zealand under the scheme The youngest member of tomorrow's party is five-year-old David Colbert, of Manchester, whose mother and father live in rooms. They felt that David would have a better chance in New Zealand than thev could give him. "We shall miss him terribly," Mrs. Colbert said when she handed David to the New Zealand ofiicials. "Perhaps we shall be able to join him later," she added. The New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr. W. J. Jordan, gave the childvn a farewell party at Over-sr-as House tonight. "You will find New Zealand towns and cities just iike your owrn hpre and the people iust as friendty," he said. He told them not to forget about their parents and to carrv on in New Zealand the activities they had in Britain.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 October 1949, Page 5
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