TO START LIFE AGAIN

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22415, 31 May 1938, Page 8

TO START LIFE AGAIN

German Jews Bound For Australia DIFFICULTIES OF DOCTORS AND LAWYERS (PRESS A.SSOCI4.TIOK TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, May 30. On their way to start life anew in Australia, between 25 and 30 German Jewish professional and business men arrived at Auckland by the Niagara as through passengers to Sydney. The migrants, some of whom have their wives and families with them, comprise doctors, lawyers, university teachers, dentists, and commercial men. One formerly was the head of a large manufacturing business in Berlin. Most of them are comparatively young. The doctors and dentists hope to be able to practise their professions in Australia, although the medical men recognise that they may find an obstacle in the proposal to refuse registration in New South Wales to foreign doctors until after they have passed the examinations for the last three years of the medical course at Sydney University.

Greater difficulties confront the lawyers, whose German qualifications are of no use to them in a British country. One of them, a doctor of laws, said photography had long been his hobby, and now he hoped to make a living out of it. This man explained that Jews leaving Germany were allowed to take with them at most 10 per cent, of their capital. Those for whom 10 per cent, was sufficient to pay their passage money and satisfy the immigration requirements of a foreign country were regarded as fortunate. The poorer people had little or no prospect of getting out unless aid were sent them. For the same reason folk who were too old to make a new start in life were unable to leave. “Some of us are hopeful that we may do well enough in Australia to bring our fathers and mothers out,” he added, “but that remains -to be seen.”