British migrants
Sir, —D. Boland’s plea (Feb 19) for us to welcome more openly the British migrant comes ironically a few days after I read of increased restrictions on the New Zealand traveller in Britain.' Why must we look towards an uninterested “mother country” as a source of the “strength, vigour and happiness” which D. Boland alleges we lack. The thousands of assisted migrants during the 1950 s and early 1960 s (51,363 from 1951-60), seemed to offer no such miraculous enrichment to New Zealand life. With daily reports of industrial strife in Britain it appears to me as if the “skilled British worker” is about as . desirable a foreign import as foot and mouth disease. — Yours, etc., D. WHITE. February 19, 1980.
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