GERMAN DOCTOR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 June 1939, Page 3

GERMAN DOCTOR

ATTRACTED TO NEW ZEALAND “FARTHEST FROM NAZI RULE” (United Pres* Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. A German-Jew, aged 28, Dr H. W. Ascii, who has qualified in Germany as a doctor of medicine, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Rangitiki, and will go to Pukehuia, North Auckland, to engage in farm work He stated that lie lias to do this because lie has not the finance i that would enable him to take the three- | J year course in Otago, which is now required of doctors with foreign qualifies- ' (lions, who wish to practise in New Zealand. It was as if a fairyland had arisen 'from the sea,” said Dr Asch, describing ! liis impression as the Rangitiki entered j Port Nicholson, which was at its best jwhen the ship arrived yesterday in the brilliant noon sunshine. A German puinter Roicklin, used to paint pictures just like that he saw coming into the harbour; Boecklin had not seen New Zealand and I the subjects for his paintings came from liis fancy. Asked why he came to New Zealand 13r Asch said he had been told that it was the best country in the world, that it had marvellous scenery, the lowest death rate, good social conditions, no unemployment, no political trouble, a small population and was not menaced in a military sense. “Above all, it is farthest from Germany,” said Dr Asch. “I have heard that of all the English-speaking peoples New Zealanders are the kindest and most hospitable to those from foreign lands.”