N.Z. WOMAN DENIES ‘UNHEALTHY TREND’ IN EMIGRATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 December 1947, Page 8

N.Z. WOMAN DENIES ‘UNHEALTHY TREND’ IN EMIGRATION

NEW YORK, Dec. 15. Mrs M. Airini Cropper, a New Zealander, in a letter which the New York Times publishes on its leader page, disputes the comment by a staff correspondent of the newspaper in a recent article that the tide of emigration from Britain is unhealthy and even dangerous. Mrs Cropper Avrites: “I consider your contributor to be wrong in the light of my own family’s history. In the ‘hungry forties’ two of my great-grand-parents left England for New Zealand. There they founded a fine family. My New Zealand grandfather married an IrishAVoman, and four of their five daughters married Englishmen. My father Avas English, and sailed for New Zealand in 1878. “In my turn I married an Englishman, who came to my country after working for six years in India. One of my sons married an English girl. “My two daughters during the recent Avar married the sons of two fine American families Avhose forbears also came from Britain eyen longer ago than mine. They are living happily in the United States, and that is my reason for being in NeAV York today.” Mrs Cropper challenges the correspondent to show in Avhat Avay such emigration has been either unhealthy or dangerous. She adds: “Surely it has rather laid the foundation of Britain’s best hope of survival.”