FOREIGNERS’ PROGRESS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21980, 26 March 1946, Page 4

FOREIGNERS’ PROGRESS

Sir, —As a returned soldier from the most recent of wars I would like to express my views on a subject which has made me quite hot undci the collar since coming home just on a year ago. It strikes me as rather strange that there should exist in Gisborne such a large foreign-born community holding the sway it does, and evidently being able to get. all it needs. Especially is (his more aggravating when one considers that, the English race as a whole is being told to quit every country if has previously traded in. I want a house, and so do a lot more of the boys. Can we get them? Not on your lile. Rehabilitation is helping, but can’t work miracles. 1 appreciate its difficulties. What I am really mad about is the lacr that several of lire foreign people have a few of the most modern houses in the town. In other words, they have been

built while we have been overseas. How was this allowed? Surely those in authority realised what things were going to be when we came back. That is only one side to my growl. The other is: Why are a lot of these people still living in New Zealand? Are we as a budding nation compelled to have these foreigners absorbed into our framework just to satisfy a political expedient? Frankly, lam one who thinks that it is about time they were returned whence they came. Their cousins across the seas want to see our cousins out oT their countries. Can't we do something about seeing “theirs” out of ours? GRIM DIG.