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New Zealand’s poor economic performance between 1977 and 1990 drove far more people overseas than were attracted here. Yet there were some significant newcomers, including Indo-Fijians and Sri Lankans, groups which emigrated to avoid political difficulties in their home countries. This Sri Lankan woman, Pathmasini Rajasingham, is receiving her certificate of New Zealand citizenship from the minister of internal affairs, Graeme Lee. She had arrived in New Zealand five years earlier.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1993/2926-F
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