From 1947 the New Zealand government once more provided assistance with fares for English migrants. Over the next 28 years more than 250,000 arrived, many paying their own way. This display in New Zealand House, London, shows the promises of a new life offered to prospective migrants. However the extract from a 1947 radio broadcast, in which an English immigrant discusses the different drinking cultures of the two countries, suggests that even for the English there were things about ‘home’ that they missed.
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Reference: L1, 22/2/14, part 1
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