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A Migrant’s Story

My father-in-law was 95 when he died recently, a life of work and service in a land that was never meant to have been his home. Giuseppe Lagrutta was 26 when he reluctantly came to New Zealand in 1952. He came at the behest of his uncle, an earlier immigrant from Moliterno, in the south […]