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Kōrero: Poles

A new settler’s identity card

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A new settler’s identity card

On his arrival in New Zealand, Aleksander Niedaszkowski went initially to the resettlement camp at Pahīatua. There he was issued with a ‘new settler’s identity card’, which he took with him into the community when he was discharged from the Pahīatua camp.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: MS-Papers-6025

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Theresa Sawicka, Poles – 20th-century arrivals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/1172/a-new-settlers-identity-card (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Theresa Sawicka, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.