PASSAGE TO NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26055, 7 March 1950, Page 4

PASSAGE TO NEW ZEALAND

Minister Waives Regulations

43-YEAR-OLD MAN WITH YOUNG SON From Our Own Reporter

■ WELLINGTON, March 6. Swift and sympathetic action by New Zealand’s .Minister of Immigration (Mr W. Sullivan) will bring to Mr L, F. Greenaway, of 29 New road, Littlehampton, Sussex, England, the best news he has had for years. Mr Greenaway is to get a passage to New Zealand- at a cost of £lO, and his 11-year-old son will come without charge Mr Greenaway, a farm worker, who reared his son from infancy after the death of his wife and refused to part with him although various authorities wanted him to place the child in a home, appealed through the New Zealand press for a chance to bring his son to a new country. An Eltham farmer, Mr P. B. Pease, offered him work and a three-room-ed cottage and arranged for the schooling of the . lad. The immigration authorities, however, said that the father was too old—he is 43 for the assisted passage scheme. Mr Sullivan, after examining the case, decided to waive the regulation in view of “pathetic circumstances” and an assisted passage is being granted the father while the boy can come free. After representations by Mr W. A. Sheat, piember for Patea, under whose notice Federated Farmers brought Mr Greenaway’s case. Mr Sullivan to-day wrote to Mr Sheat giving his decision. Mr Sullivan said \that he liked the look of the boy, whose photograph the father had sent to New Zealand. “If you could help me,” wrote Mr Greenaway, “may God help you as he has blessed me, in helping me find work and bring up my son on my own, starting where his mother left off.”