ENTRY OF MIGRANTS
“Skill Should Be Criterion”
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 6. If New Zealand was to subsidise skilled immigrants then skill alone should be the criterion for selection, not colour, the secretary of the Citizens’ Association for Racial Equality (Mr T. 0. Newnham) said yesterday. He was commenting on a television interview in which the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Marshall) was questioned on the Government’s immigration policy. “Mr Marshall failed to answer the charge that New Zealand’s immigration policy is racist.” Mr Newnham said. “He made it clear that to him some races are more acceptable as migrants than others. Such beliefs can only give offence to those races not on his short list. “If New Zealand is to subsidise skilled migrants to this country then skill alone should be the criterion for ! selection, not colour.”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32395, 7 September 1970, Page 24
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