Catholic Boys' College.
A target of £20,000 for the establishment of a Catholic boys’ secondary school on a 22-acre site in Westown, New Plymouth, has been reached. It is hoped to have the school working by 1950. It would be staffed by Marist Brothers.
HE DIDN’T LIKE IT!—Mr. A. K. Esmail, who hails from British East Africa, was smiling on his arrival at Auckland by Skymaster from Vancouver yesterday, but after a customs official had thrice referred to him as a coloured man he was sad. “If a European came to my country and I called him a ‘pinky’ he wouldn’t like it,” he said. ’Tve met New Zealanders in Africa and they are usually very courteous. I am proud of my colour, but I think It would have been more tactful to have referred to me as an Asian or Indian,” Mr. Esmail, whose parents were born in Pakistan, is on a world-wide tour to buy machinery for use in Pakistan, “where they are industrialising the jute and cotton industries.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22808, 1 December 1948, Page 4
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