Curious why many left for New Zealand? (General)

by ritpetite @, New Zealand, Friday, April 15, 2011, 06:18 (4975 days ago) @ J.Orr

I think that it was a case of 'the grass being greener'. And in the case of my grandparents it was the year of the 1926 strikes that they would have decided.

I think that the people who had immigrated to NZ wrote back to their families and friends encouraging them to come over here.

My grandfather was a coalminer and I think perhaps my grandmother was looking for a better way of life. So they were sponsored by a couple who I believe originally came from the forest, Roberts, to come and work on their farm.

My grandfather wrote to his brother around 1940 and asked him to come over and enjoy the milk (he was sharemilking in Waihi), the beach and get away from the germans.

Unfortunately he declined and because he did, I have to fly 22 hrs to visit my cousin or email her.

Rita
NZ


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