MOKE QUESTIONS IN HOUSE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21933, 6 November 1936, Page 11

MOKE QUESTIONS IN HOUSE

MRS FREER’S EXCLUSION FROM AUSTRALIA N.Z. GOVERNMENT NOT ADVISED OF FACTS OF CASE (united press association-copyright.) (Received November 5, 11.50 p.m.) CANBERRA, November 5, More questions were asked in the House of Representatives to-day about the exclusion of Mrs M..M. Freer from Australia.

Mr McCall, a Government member, asked whether the Minister for the Interior (Mr T. Paterson) had sent the full facts of Mrs Freer’s case to the New Zealand Government, as stated by the Hon. M. Fagan in New Zealand and reported in the Australian press. The Minister replied: No communication has been sent by the Commonwealth Government to the New Zealand Government.” A Labour member, Mr Jf A. Beasley asked whether there was any precedent for subjecting a British subject to a dictation test in circumstances similar to those of Mrs Freer’s case. Mr Paterson replied that there was.

LEGAL POSITION MRS FREER SEEKS MEANS OF REDRESS (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, November 8. After her experiences of the last week or two, Mrs Freer, who reached Auckland on Wednesday by the Wanganella after being refused entry into Australia on the ground that she failed to pass a dictation test in Italian, spent the greater part of to-day resting at her “I want to find out just what my legal position is, and whether I have any redress,” she said to-night. She heard nothing further from London or Australia to-day about her case.