Left to right aboard the liner at Rotterdam: Captain Frits De Jonge, Master of the Sibajak; Alfred Stirling, Australian Ambassador to Holland; Miss Scholte (with plate), and (extreme right) J.G. Suurhof, Dutch Minister for Social Affairs.Miss Maria Agnes Scholte, 20, of Amsterdam boarded The Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Liner Sibajak at Rotterdam, Holland, June 1, In route to Melbourne as the 50,000th Dutch migrant to Australia since 1945.J.G. Surhof, Dutch Minister for social affairs, handed her a delftware plate to present to Australia's Immigration Minister H.E. Holt in the name of the Dutch government on her arrival in Melbourne. February 06, 1954. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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