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Listening to music on immigrant ship

Assisted immigrants listening to music on board an unidentified ship en route to New Zealand.

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  • Map of immigration route from Britain
    Assisted immigration, 1947-75

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assisted immigration
immigrants
Credit

Archives New Zealand
National Publicity Studios Photographic Collection, AAQT 6401, A59375

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'Listening to music on immigrant ship', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/listening-to-music-on-immigrant-ship, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 17-Jul-2014

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Articles

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Mary nee Woolnough

Posted: 07 Nov 2008

Arrived Wellington 50 years ago on 15th November 1958 . Extract from last page of diary kept on voyage...... Our 5 weeks of bliss and enjoyment, laziness and sunshine, friendships and compaionships, fun and games, wind and sea, the journeying onwards day after day, had come to a sad end. Now we must settle to 2 years of life in a new land