AUSTRALIA HOUSE
ATTITUDE TO MIGRANTS CRITICISED London, October 31. Replying to Sir Henry Cowan’s statement in Melbourne that Australia House was a migration “bottleneck,’ Mr. Barnes, Acting-Director, declared that it was most misleading. Though families were often rejected, even though sponsored by Parliamentarians, the only reason for the rejection, apart from ill-health, bad character, or unsuitability, was lack, of requisitions. Migrants with families could not be sent out if thev were not nominated, or if the States did not requisition them. “We must turn down applicants,” he saidj “fifty of whom were thus informed last week. It is lack of nominations that causes the criticism of Australia House. We accept 90 per cent of those nominated.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 33, 2 November 1927, Page 10
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