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The author, Megan Hutching, is the Oral Historian at the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs, so she is well suited to compiling a scholarly work from interviews and the answers to questionnaires, as well as from historical records. In case that should sound dull, be assured that the book is not. The stuff of Ms Hutching’s book is the recollections and observations of the able, energetic, and courageous young British people who made the decision to try their luck on the other side of the world. These assisted immigrants were almost entirely from the ‘working class’ for whom life in Britain following the Second World War was miserably grey. They did not make fortunes, but did materially improve themselves. They nearly all bought their own homes in New Zealand, which they would never have done in Britain, and raised healthy, well-nourished children. They rejoiced in our space and sunshine, and in the informality between management and staff in the workplace. It is surprising and sobering to read that one immigrant, whose skill was painting in lacquer, thought that New Zealanders were lazy. He used to finish his allocation of work by lunch-time. Apart from the absorbing human interest in the book the author’s observations on the New Zealand political scene during this period of nearly thirty years are highly interesting. Pressure from manufacturers for assisted immigration to relieve skills shortages was persistent: the Federation of Labour was at best lukewarm to immigration, citing reasonably the pressure which married immigrants placed upon accommodation and housing finance. In 1938 and again in 1957 the then Labour administration imposed import controls to conserve seriously depleted overseas funds. Had the outgoing administration been improvident, or had the incoming Labour administration spent up large in its first year, one wonders. In due course the

Long Journey for Sevenpence: Assisted Immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom 1947–1975