MIGRANTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27089, 11 July 1953, Page 2

MIGRANTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA

“COUNTRY HEADED FOR DISASTER”

FAMILIES TO SETTLE IN NEW ZEALAND (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 10. “We can see no future for our children in South Africa.” said Mr E. W. Hulse on his arrival at Wellington in the Dominion Monarch today. “The country is headed for disaster. “There is racial trouble between the English and the Afrikanders, and now on top there is the question of the blacks,” Mr Hulse said. “The present Government has handled the whole situation wrongly. The position is getting more than serious.” Mr and Mrs Hulse and their children comprised one of several families of British settlers from South Africa who joined the Dominion Monarch at Cape Town and intend to settle in New Zealand. Other families came from Rhodesia, Swaziland, and Johannesburg.

“We have burned our boats in South Africa—sold up everything,” Mr Hulse said. “With us we are bringing a rotary hoe, some furniture, and a car. We expect to be able to live decently m New Zealand.”

t He predicted that the present “trickle” of settlers who were giving up their businesses in South Africa and moving to other countries would before long develop into a “flow.” Mr Hulse said that in South Africa he had been profitably farming 200 acres since 1922. The parents and brother of his son’s wife were now negotiating the sale of their small country store in the Kat river valley, and were considering leaving South Africa.