Story: History of immigration

Dutch immigrants, 1953

In 1950 an assisted passage scheme was extended to the Dutch. More than 6,000 eventually came. Many others later paid their own way, swelling the ranks of the Dutch community to more than 20,000. Here Dutch immigrants stand in front of their luggage soon after their arrival in Wellington in 1953.

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – Assisted immigration revives: 1946 to 1975, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2151/dutch-immigrants-1953 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.

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John Paget
05 June 2020

Researching my father in law Evaradus Komen, who arrived on the steam ship Sibajak around 1953.