Three Asian families

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33060, 30 October 1972, Page 19

Three Asian families

{From

GARRY ARTHUR.

London correspondent of "The Press")

LONDON, Oct 29.

New Zealand has now accepted three families of Ugandan Asians for immigration, and is looking at about 50 other applications. Those accepted are a lawyer, a technician and an engineer. The first family is expected to fly to Wellington on November 5, and the others a few days later. All are going to Wellington. The lawyer is Mr Jagdish Petal, who has a wife and two children. The others are Mr Narenda Bhimjiami, a chemical laboratory technician, who has a wife and one child, and Mr Mahendra Thaker, an aircraft maintenance engineer, who is married but has no children. Another two families of Ugandan Asians are making their way to New Zealand at their own expense and for that reason have been excluded from the refugee statistics.

The remaining 50 applicants cover a wide variety of occupations, and, according to the New Zealand High Commission, they include virtually all of the professions nominated by New Zealand as acceptable.