when did the 10 pound pom scheme start
Ten Pound Poms Ten Pound Poms (or Ten Pound tourists) is a colloquial term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after the Second World War. The Government of Australia initiated the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945,[1] and the Government of New Zealand initiated a similar scheme in July 1947. Ten Pound poms were called that because they only had to pay Â£10 in processing fees to migrate to Australia and the Commonwealth arranged for assisted passage on chartered ships and aircraft.