DUTCHMAN RETURNS TO HOMELAND
DISSATISFACTION WITH NEW ZEALANDERS Remarks overheard at theatres and dances had helped to persuade him to return to his native Holland, said Mr F. van Reek, who flew to Sydney from ixarewood yesterday on his way back to his homeland. Mr van Reek, who is a welder, had been in New Zealand xor two years and a half. There was quite a friendly atmosphere at his work, and his employers could not have been kinder, said Mr van Reek. There was, however, in general a feeling of “New Zealand for the New Zealanders.” People came to the Dominion in good faith, willing to co-operate and work, but there were some people who would not speak to immigrants. Others took the line of, “You’re all right but we don’t like the others.” The ordinary New Zealander was perhaps a friendly fellow, but there was a “couldn’t-care-less” attitude about everything with many of them, said Mr van Reek. ,
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 7
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