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Journey for three

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Journey for three

As part of a wide-ranging programme of advertising to attract immigrants, the film Journey for three was shown in British cinemas. It told the story of the trials but eventual successes of three British immigrants during their early years in New Zealand.

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Reference: Journey for three, NZ National Film Unit Laboratories, 1950.

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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/2150/journey-for-three (accessed 3 June 2026).

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