RECORD IN THRIFT

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 6 September 1929, Page 5

RECORD IN THRIFT

FOREIGNERS MAKE GOOD £142,000 BETWEEN 60 Remarkable evidence of thrift •is revealed in the applications made by foreigners settled in Australia- for permission t® bring out close relatives. The Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Abbott, said that the latest statistics showed that during July 60 persons who applied for the admission of relatives had net assets totalling £14?,000. A Jugo Slav laborer who has been 16 years in Australia had saver] £IOOO, while a Russian confectioner, after 2f> years has £20,000. ? A Polish financier has amassed £30,000 after 26 years. A Russian, aged 40, who has £ISOO after two years, is being granted permission to bring out his wife. / On the,other hand, the Home Affairs Department frowns on the romance of a young Syrian girl, who has a little green grocery store, and wants to 'bring out her fiance. Nor will a native of Palestine be permitjrd to bring out his brother. Not only is' close wat.cfcf kept on emigration, but f rora time to time migrants who Ijave proved undesirable am deported. “Unfortunately, a good many of these are British,” said Mr Abbott The latest statistics show that the departures from Australia exceed the arrivals. This, the Minister claims, is wholly due to the tightening of restrictions of emigrations of Southern European*.