GERMAN JEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 20

GERMAN JEWS.

SETTLEMENT IN N.Z. - RESTRICTIONS ON PERMITS. ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph.—Oxvn Correspondent.) CHRISTCHI'IiCH. this day. •Tews in Australia and Xew Zealand are doing their >~cst to help refugees from Cennany make a frc-h start in the two countries. At present there are fourteen refugee Oerman -lew- in ( hri-tchurch. and. according to Ibibbi X. S. Salas. who lias recently returned irotii Australia, many more emigrants would be brought ou*. if the <!oxeriiment would issue permits. Permits for Jexvs to enter X'exv Zealand were difficult to obtain, said Mr. Sa las hut he believed that Australia xxoiild shortly be ab-.irbin- live tliou--a rid annually. More refugees had I

settled iii Auckland and Wellington and all wore highly cultured and of the professional class, added tlie Kabbi. Wliile tlio Jews and tlie fiovernment were co-ojH>rat inir admiraldv in Australia. it was liard to place the professional type in Xew Zealand. So far a.s lie knew, added Mr. Salas. no refugee in I'hrUtchurcli was a charge on lh» community, and he quoted examples of people who had already advanced themselves. There were about three thousand dews in New Zealand, and. although some of tliem were poor, they had eeneroii-ly to ;i-~ i-1 the emigrant*. Some <>i" those helped were not pure .lews, hut often people ol /distant .lew ish descent. A German lielief Coinmittee had been re<'ently lormed by the dew- in ('hri-tcliuivli. • Hid all that could lie clone was to Iry to au-ucr Ihe appeaU of persecuted .Tews tor a refuse in New Zealand.