Resettle
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Plan Begins To Resettle Tokelauans
A party of 27 Tokelauans aged between 17 and 21 were due in Auckland on March 28 under a New Zealand Govern ment resettlement scheme to transfer about 1,000 of the Islanders to New Zealand over the next five years (PIM, Feb., P- 17).
The Tokelauans—ls youths and 12 girls—are the first to go to New Zealand under the scheme. An RNZAF Sunderland flying-boat flew the party from the Tokelaus to Western Samoa in mid-March, after flying in food for the three atolls in the group, which were badly hit by the late January hurricane (PIM, Mar. p. 48).
Twelve of the 15 youths in the party will work at a sawmill at Rotorua and the other three have volunteered for the Army.
The girls will work as domestics in Church missions.