REFUGEES FROM HONG KONG
Government Urged To Admit More
The Government should increase the number of orphans from Hong Kong to be admitted to New Zealand, and make it possible for Chinese refugee families to be admitted, the Synod of the North Canterbury district of the Methodist Church of New Zealand agreed. The churches should encourage nations to adopt a regulated policy of migration that would avoid any exclusion of immigrants on the basis of race, nationality, or religion, said a report by the international affairs committee of the Church which was adopted by the synod It was introduced by the Rev. A. W. E. Silvester.
An increasing proportion of mankind had become migrants, said the report It was not enough to talk of aid to refugees nor even to distinguish between permanent and temporary migration. The human need and suffering must become the concern of all. “We must bear in mind how little the Government has done,’’ said the Rev. S Dawson. “I don’t think we should consider our country is being unduly generous in this matter ”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29910, 25 August 1962, Page 8
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