ANXIOUS TIME IN HONG KONG
QUARTER OF A MILLION REFUGEES WELLINGTON, This Day. A member of the British Colonial Service, Mr R. North, secretary lor Chinese affairs in Hong Kong, arrived by the Awatea to-day on eight months’ leave. He says that they have had an anxious time in Hong Kong during the past two years and it is estimated that there are a quarter of a million refugees there. No doubt they will eventually! go back again when things settle once more but he is afraid that it is too early yet to say when that is likely to be. Mr North has been in Hong Kong since 1912 but had a year away when he was engaged at Samoa on special duties for the New Zealand Government for a year in 1922.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 6 December 1938, Page 7
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134ANXIOUS TIME IN HONG KONG Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 6 December 1938, Page 7
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