Samoan Migrants
Sir,—The petition before Parliament for “better entry and settlement conditions for Samoans” who already get preferential treatment should arouse more thought than it is likely to in Parliament. For years New Zealand’s overseas aid has been mainly devoted to enabling Pacific Islanders to ignore the need for birth control. Samoa’s population doubles every 20 years, and we read in this morning’s paper that Samoan families are so large that parents can often not afford to send their children to school. In my view New Zealand should refuse entry to further Samoans until such time as the Samoan Government adopts a serious population policy. A doubled intake of intelligent overseas students would clearly be less potty than freer entry for semiliterate Samoans. Yet a Government which still ignores record illegitimacy rather than mention birth control will probably continue with policies which help neither us nor Samoa,—Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. July 16, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32351, 17 July 1970, Page 12
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