REFUGEES AND NEW ZEALAND

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 243, 11 July 1938, Page 11

REFUGEES AND NEW ZEALAND

Sympathy Expressed For Unfortunates

APPLICATIONS TO BE CONSIDERED

Dependent On Economic

Conditions

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

(Received July 10, 9.30 p.m.)

EVIAN, July 9.

New Zealand’s delegate to the conference which is being held here on the refugee problem, Mr. Burdekin, expressed the New Zealand Government’s sympathy with those unfortunates who were compelled to seek new homes.

He pointed out that, within the limits of the migration laws, New Zealand had already received a limited number of refugees and was prepared to consider applications, although it would only be by the acceptance of others also that New Zealand’s acceptance of large numbers could be anticipated. Moreover, the number to be admitted was governed by economic conditions.

He explained the migration laws and added that it was impossible to ensure that every applicant who was unlikely to become a charge on the State and make a useful citizen would be accepted. The risk of the applicant’s burdening the public funds’ would be increased if he was not allowed to bring a proportion of his possessions. NAZI RIDICULES CONFERENCE Concern About “Depraved Race” London, July 8. Herr Alfred Rosenberg, in an article in the Nazi Party newspaper, “Volkischer Beobachter,” ridicules the refugees’ conference at Evian on the ground that it is impossible that anyone could be concerned about such a depraved race as the Jews, and says that the Reich is determined to root out Jews, and that other countries are bound to follow suit.

Therefore, the world ultimately will be confronted with six or seven millions of refugees. He suggests that Jews be granted African territory, such as Uganda or Madagascar. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says that Herr Rosenberg did not suggest how Jews could leave Germany when they are unable to take out capital. He says it is feared that the conference wiU be more productive of anti-German propaganda than of outlets for the Jews, which explains the German hostility. “The Times's” correspondent at Evian says that there has been insufficient preparation, and that - the conference has little chance of results.