BOY IMMIGRANT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 62, 15 March 1927, Page 10

BOY IMMIGRANT

THE AUCKLAND ALLEGATIONS

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day. The allegations of ill-treatment of an immigrant boy in New Zealand, made by the Rev. L E. Dalby at the Methodist Conference in Auckland, have been responsible for further correspondence between Mr. Dalby and the Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister in Charge of Immigration. The following letter has been forwarded to the Minister by Mr. Dalby, in reply to a request for information as to the name of the vessel which was to bring the parents of the boy -whose case was quoted:— "You are under an entire misapprehension as to the nature of my statement. I did not state that the parents of the boy whose case I gave to the conference were on their way to New Zealand. That statement referred to one of two miners (F. Cousins), to whom I also referred. The boy's case happened twelve months ago, almost immediately after my arrival in New Zealand. He has since gone South, and I have no record of his name and present address. If he sees this correspondence and writes me I shall immediately forward his name and address to you.

"I assure you that while the majority of the boys may be well treated, there are sufficient eases where accommodation and food are of such a nature as to call for investigation. Only now I have heard of two similar Wses which go to show that boys on farms are obliged to live under very unsatisfactory, ' indeed discreditable, conditions. The worst of. the matter is that correspondents from different areas write to me about these things but beg of me not to mention their names."