Fifty-One New Gtizens Welcomed By Mayor

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29782, 27 March 1962, Page 15

Fifty-One New Gtizens Welcomed By Mayor

Elderly Chinese who have lived in New Zealand for many years joined young West Europeans last evening to swear allegiance to the British Crown and New Zealand when 51 persons were naturalised at a civic naturalisation ceremony in the City Council chambers. The Mayor (Mr G. Manning) reminded the new citizens of their obligations as well as their privileges when he welcomed them and administered the oath. Most of those naturalised were Dutch. The homelands of others were Bulgaria. Greece, Hungary. India, the Ukraine, Czechoslovakia. Jugoslavia, Latvia, Poland, and China. Those naturalised were:—

Andon Georgieff Aitandishliyeff, Winston John Bangma, Jan de Boer, Hendrik Gerardus Bothof, George Caras. Johannes van Eerden. Catharina van Eerden. Cornells Pieter van Den Ende, Neeitje Christina van Den Ende. Florian Furjan, Ganda Gopal. Vajaii Gopal. Kashi Gopal, Hendrik Ten Hove, Marcellus Matheas Koolen, Martina Anna Petronella Koolen. Trofim Krotik, Nikolai Kruhlenko, Mila Kruhlenko, Johan George de Kruyk. Johanna de Kruyk, George Kunz. Gouke

Minno Leek. Gysbertus Linterman, Geertruida Linterman. accompanied by their son Willem Frederik Jacobus, Johannes Paul Marie van de Loo, Berendiana Johanna Petronella van de Loo, Gerardus Meijer, Leonie Maria Meijer, Robert Mraz, Olga Mraz, Gerardus Cornells de Mulder, Gerasim Popovic, Velta Popovic, Lajos Puskas, Maria Sulima-Rogaczewska. Shue Chork Ling, Shue Chan Soon, Hendrik Jannes Smit, Gesina Hendrika Smit, Karl Robert Terpstra, Engel Tuyn, Willem Andrianus Visker, Julia Hermana Visker, Antoinette Maria Tecla Williamson, Anthony Wong, Noia Wong. Wong Kee Sum, Wong Gum Moi, and Maria Josephina Margaretha de Zwart.