Would You Like To Be Colley Pinky'?
AUCKLAND, Tue. (P.A.).—Mr A. K Esmail, who hails from British East Africa was smiling on his arrival by Skymaster from Vancouver today, bui after a customs' offical 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. “I’ve met New Zealanders in Africa and they are usually very courteous “I am proud of my colour but 1 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 the jute and cotton industries.”
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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1948, Page 5
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