PERMITS TO LEAVE
WARTIME SUPERVISION
KEEPING PEOPLE INTACT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, July 28,
"In wartime a country must keep its people intact," said the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry), when referring to the disappointment expressed by a number of people whose applications for permits to leave New Zealand had been declined.
"Many young women married to men in the Expeditionary Force and Air Force have shown a great desire, quite understandably, to be near their husbands in England," the Minister said. "We have had some sad' personal appeals to hear in declining them. The Government can only say that the dispatches of the United Kingdom Government make it clear that in the interests of the women themselves they should remain in their own country."
The Minister said his Department was working in concert with the Man-power Department regarding applications from men wishing to go to Australia or further abroad. The Departments were not recommending the issue of permits to men of military age. Applications from men unfit for military service or over the stipulated age were being dealt with on their merits.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 25, 29 July 1940, Page 5
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187PERMITS TO LEAVE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 25, 29 July 1940, Page 5
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