By the end of World War Two there hadn’t been much net migration to New Zealand for 20 years.
There had been a big wave of assisted migration in the first half of the 1920s – almost all those moving to New Zealand then were substantially financially assisted, initially largely by the British government, keen to assist ex-servicemen to resettle in the dominions, and then by the New Zealand government. Financial assistance to migrants had long been a feature of New Zealand (provincial and central) government policy – compared with the option of moving to Canada or the US (or even just staying in the UK), moving to New Zealand was expensive (time lost as well as fares). But inflows to New Zealand dropped off after the mid 1920s and government assistance to migrants was largely discontinued from around 1927. Over the twenty years, 1927 to 1946, annual net migration to New Zealand…
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