CONTROL URGED
ENTRY INTO DOMINION
IMMIGRATION DEBATED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. By six votes to four, the Auckland Hospital Board carried a motion urging the Government to.control immigration into New Zealand during the present period of economic difficulty. The Customs Department advised the board that there was no power to prevent the entry of British immigrants' of good health and character. The chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, said that other parts of the Empire had prevented the entry of New Zealanders. The Auckland City Mission shelter was accommodating recent arrivals/ from Australia,' and the board's relief committee had numbers of applications from Australians and Canadians. Mr. E. H. Potter: "New Zealand was established by British migrants. I think it. absolutely wrong to attempt to prevent British immigrants from coming here." % Mr. M. J. Savage, M.P., said it was a matter of common-seuse to regulate immigration. • The Bey. W. Wood, who moved the motion, said that it was cruel to bring people to New Zealand under the present conditions. Mr. Potter: "I am not going to vote against British subjects coming, he-re. We must admit them." Mr. Wood: "Not impecunious ones." Mr. Potter: "I don't agree."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1931, Page 11
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196CONTROL URGED Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1931, Page 11
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