In 1940 Great Britain was having many troubles with its economy. Because the industrial and Agricultural revolutions brought into use many machines that would do the work of labourers much faster and cheaper thus many people lost their jobs to these machines. So many people from the country gave up trying to make a living in the country because wages were very poor and rents had sky rocketed because labourers weren’t needed not just this …showed first 75 words of 463 total…

…showed last 75 words of 463 total…Zealand sounded like paradise. Especially since the government paid it that way and charged next to nothing for a ticket on board one of the emigration ships because they wanted to get the trouble making working class out of the cities so it wouldn’t be over populated and not nearly as many were starving not to mention they wanted settlers in New Zealand for their own profit and anther addition to the European dynasty.