PLEA TO STOP IMMIGRATION
A telegram urging the Government to stop all immigration “until we know where we are” has been sent to the Minister of Labour (Nir Watt) by the Canterbury Trades Council.
The telegram supports Mr Watt in his preparation of a contingency plan to stop the flow of immigrants from Britain and Australia getting out of hand, but goes further in calling for a complete stoppage of immigration at once.
“A statement from the manufacturers’ representative in Auckland showed
that they are living in the dream world of 1973,” the secretary of the council (Mr G. G. Walker) said yesterday. "We can accept his feelings about a shortage of tradesmen but we cannot accept that 1974 is going to be like 1973.”
The first complete review of immigration policy to be made in the memory of Immigration Department officers was begun early last
iyear and was due to be completed this month. Early this month the trades council became anxious about the rise in the number of inquiries by would-be migrants in Britain and the Netherlands after rapidly increasing unemployment in those countires. At the time the Minister of Immigration (Mr Colman) said the trends were being studied to form part of the review.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33434, 16 January 1974, Page 14
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