MALAYSIAN STUDENTS
No Change In Govt Attitude (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 23. No protest would be made to the Government of Malaysia about alleged political pressure being brought to bear on Malaysian students in New Zealand on membership of student organisations, said the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake). Expressions of concern relating to ‘ membership of Malaysian and Singaporean Students’ Associations have been brought to the Prime Ministers’s notice in the last year. “Speaking on my behalf in the House of Representatives in September, 1988, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Marshall), in response to a question, said that the Malaysian (and MalaysianSingapore) Students’ Associations were private bodies and membership was for the associations themselves to decide. “It was not appropriate, the Deputy Prime Minister pointed out, for the New Zealand Government to intervene in their affairs,” Mr Holyoake said. “So far as I am aware there have been no new developments to cause the Government to change this viewpoint and make a formal protest to the Malaysian Government”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32076, 26 August 1969, Page 6
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