It's amazing what you find out once you start looking at something
My Royal Marine on the Eglingham war memorial left behind a widow with several children. She remarried in 1917 but died in 1918 leaving young orphaned children.
After WW1 New Zealand farmers launched a fund for the benefit of orphans and dependants of killed or wounded British seamen (Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine). It was in repayment of what they felt was a debt to the seamen who had kept the shipping lanes open during the war, allowing their wool clips to reach England.
An establishment called Flock House which gave training in agriculture and farming was set up in NZ and from 1924 to 1937 British children within the above category were able to go to NZ and receive training. At the end of their time at Flock House they got jobs on NZ farms.
Two of my Royal Marine's sons went in 1926 and 1928 when they reached age 16.
From what I can gather this was an altogether more positive experience than that which transported English children to Australia after WW2.
You don't know what you don't know, as they say!