Post war migration

So Jock, the next wave of migration then in the 1900s, came from where to New Zealand?

The biggest migration in the 20th century came in the years after the Second World War when…quite a number of people came from Holland. There was something like 20,000 came from Holland. I might just look at the Dutch entry, and this is a photograph here of one of the first group of Dutch migrants who came out, who was a carpenter, was brought out to help build State houses. But big migration of Dutch people in the 1950s, and also a large number of people from Britain, particularly from Scotland and England; and a number from some smaller communities, a few from Scandinavia and those sorts of places. But essentially the Dutch, and the English and the Scots, were the big migrants…big numbers of migrants came in the 1950s and the 1960s. Always been of course quite a lot of migrants who have come across the Tasman from Australia, because they are so similar to us, you know, they have integrated very well, and they are not quite as visible as say the Dutch immigrants are.

My own parents were migrants to New Zealand in the late 50s and early 60s and they came from Greece, so a little bit of a European and Mediterranean migration as well.

Let’s look at the Greek story because that is quite a strong Wellington story actually, a very large number of Greeks came to Wellington. A lot of them came and settled up and established themselves in places like…cake shops, and those kinds of activities…

Food – restaurants and fish and chips…

They set up some of their cultural institutions. This is the Olympic Football Club in Wellington, which is one of things created by the Greek community. Named Olympic after Olympia in Greece, the place where the first Olympic Games were held. So presumably that’s why it was called Olympic.