CHILD IN RUSSIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 204, 30 August 1933, Page 7

CHILD IN RUSSIA.

PASSPORT FEE £100. PARENTS IN NEW ZEALAND. RKPKESENTATIONS TO SOVIET. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. It was stated recently that the reunion of a Eussian child with its parents in New Zealand after a separation of a dozen years should take place within a few months. The parents were refugees from the Eussian revolution, and they had to leave the infant daughter when they escaped through China with the older children. The family found their way to New Zealand and settled at Foxton. A letter received by Mr. Galloway, general secretary of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, from the secretary of the League of Eed Cross Societies, Paris, makes it doubtful whether the child, whose name is Galena Bogatiroff, will be able to come to New Zealand as soon as "was expected. The Soviet Government is asking £100 for a passport and £80 for passage money. Eepresentations have been made to the acting-Minister of External Affairs, the Et. Hon. J. G. Coates, who has cabled to His Majesty's Government requesting that the British Ambassador at Moscow be asked to urge the Soviet Government to waive or reduce, on humanitarian grounds, the levy of £100 for official permission to leave the country in order that the child may be reunited with its parents. Owing to the arrest of the child's aunt, who had been looking after her, Mr. Galloway said matters had become even more complicated.