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Assisted immigration resumes after war
Between 1947 and 1975, 77,000 women, children and men arrived from Great Britain under the assisted immigration scheme. The first draft of 118 immigrants arrived in Auckland on the New Zealand Shipping Company liner Rangitata.
Sound clip: New Settlers Association gathering
A gathering at the Wellington club rooms of the New Settlers' Association. Includes description from a new settler.
Lounge on the Captain Cook immigrant ship
The corridor lounge on the port side of the Captain Cook.
Film clip: immigrants enjoy the great outdoors
A Scottish immigrant woman describes playing indoor activities and basketball and walking in the bush with friends. Extract from Journey for Three, NZ National Film Unit Laboratories,1950.
Advice to new assisted immigrant arrivals
An official from the Labour Department gives employment advice to new assisted immigrant arrivals on the Monowai, 1949
Listening to music on immigrant ship
Assisted immigrants listening to music on board an unidentified ship en route to New Zealand. Archives New Zealand National Publicity Studios Photographic Collection, AAQT 6401, A59375
Emigration poster
Poster encouraging emigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom
New Zealand House, London
New Zealand House in London in the 1960s. Archives New Zealand National Publicity Studios Photographic Collection, AAQT 6401, A76017
Labour Department officials
The Labour Department was responsible for setting up and administering the assisted immigration scheme.
English assisted immigrant women arriving
English immigrant women from the Atlantis in Wellington, 1951
Map of immigration route from Britain
Emigration routes from Great Britain. Map from the New Zealand Historical Atlas / Ko Paptuanuku e Takoto Nei edited by Malcolm McKinnon; cartography by Terralink NZ Ltd David Bateman Ltd. / Dept of Internal Affairs 1997
Assisted immigration to New Zealand 1947-1975
New Zealand is a country of immigrants. Wave after wave of peoples have settled here: Polynesian, British, European, Asian.
Peopling New Zealand - assisted immigration
The Labour Department was responsible for setting up and administering the assisted immigration scheme
Leaving the grey UK - assisted immigration to New Zealand
The Immigration Branch needed to advertise the assisted immigration scheme as widely as possible and mostly used the classified sections of British newspapers.
The voyage out - assisted immigration to New Zealand
The Captain Cook, along with the Captain Hobson, brought assisted immigrants to New Zealand via the Panama Canal from 1952.
Life in New Zealand - assisted immigration
After they arrived, each assisted immigrant was given a letter of welcome from Bert Bockett, the Secretary for Labour, which outlined the assistance which the Department would give them and provided details of the jobs in New Zealand to which they had been appointed, along with their transport and accommodation arrangements.
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