ABUSING HIS HOST9

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31000, 4 March 1966, Page 1

ABUSING HIS HOST 9

(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, March 3. The Minister of Immigration (Mr Shand) today replied to charges that it was time he “got used to the fact that Orientals can be something other than market gardeners.” The criticism was levelled earlier this week by Mr Adrian Chan, a Chinese whose parents are Australian citizens and who has been appointed a teaching fellow iat Otago University.

He has been granted a temporary six-month entry permit, renewable for up to two years. Mr Chan has an Australian B.A. degree with honours and will lecture at Otago University on Chinese history and Chinese-American relations while completing a Ph.D. degree. He complained that he could not complete his degree in two years and could not budget his life in six-monthly periods. Mr Shand retorted yesterday: “I am well aware that Orientals can be something other than market gardeners. “We have a large Chinese community of loyal citizens engaged in many occupations. I “Mr Chan is not unique in I beginning to abuse his host

almost at the moment he sets foot in the country. There are always some people who support their statements with an inadequate choice of facts. “People of Australia and Nev/ Zealand admit thousands of students from countries where education facilities are inadequate to aid these countries. So that the aid may be effective, we insist that they return. “Mr Chan would do well to ponder that by behaving in the way he has begun to do, be is doing his best to damage and destroy the wealth of good will which New Zealanders as a whole feel toward those of his race who have settled here,” said Mr Shand.