EUROPEAN MIGRANTS

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1937, Page 3

EUROPEAN MIGRANTS

To Australia “TOURIST” CLASS TRAVELLERS OBJ ECT. (Received August 17, 7.50 P- m / FREMANTLE, August 17. A number of “tourist" class passengers aboard the liner Otranto, which has arrived here from London, held a meeting during the voyage, and decided to forward a petition to the Commonwealth Government, protesting against a large influ * Southern Europeans into Australia The spokesman for the petitioners, Aiderman J. Harrop, of Rockhampton, Queensland, who is returning from a holiday trip, said the Otranto had a large number of foreign migrants aboard, who were not the tyP® wanted in Australia. He had read that three other liners were following with 600 nationals. They were chiefly Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs and Germans. A member of the Federal Parliament, Mr. Roland Green, who is also a passenger, declared he intended to bring the matter up in Parliament when he arrived.