THE NEW AUSTRIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 4

THE NEW AUSTRIA

MISERY AND DISTRESS

DOCTOR FROM VIENNA

(By Telegraph—Press Association )

AUCKLAND, This Daj

Formerly the owner, with his brother, of one of the largest granite and monumental woiks in Vienna, Dr. V. Neubrunn arrived by the Tasman. on his way to settle in Austialia He is accompanied by his wife and members of his family

Dr. Neubrunn said that as a nonAryan much of his property had been confiscated since the anschluss. Taxes which he had had to pay to leave the country .had[absorbed 60 pqr-cent oi his remaining money. The 40 per cent, that w_as;left was in blocked marks and useless to him abroad He had beeu alowed to take oat the £500 necessaiy for him and his family to land in Australia, but for this he had to pay more than four tinies the normal exchange. Although 100,000 persons had left Austria in the past year, mostly from Vienna, Dr.; Neubrunn addedj quite 200,000 more would leave if they could obtain permits. Meanwhile, they were living in much misery and distress. Non-Nazis were finding conditons almost as difficult as non-Aiyans