THE FREER CASE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22685, 24 March 1937, Page 12

THE FREER CASE

BAN STILL IN FORCE AUSTRALIAN CABINET DECISION BEING AWAITED RESIDENCE IN WELLINGTON [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON. Tuesday A statement that he had received no official advice that there was a possibility of the removal of the ban on the entry of Mrs. M. M. Freer to Australia was made to-day by her solicitor, Mr. M. O. Barnett. He added that the only communication he had received from the Federal Minister of the Interior, Mr. T. Paterson, was a formal acknowledgment on March 1 of his appeal to the Minister requesting him to bring Mrs. Frccr's case before the Cabinet for reconsideration. Mr. Barnett said that the only reference to Mrs. Freer since then was a cablegram from Sydney published in the New Zealand newspapers on March 10, stating that the Federal Cabinet had discussed the ban on Mrs. Freer and the application by her solicitor for a review of the Minister's decision, and also that there was a disposition on the part of the majority of the Cabinet to lift tho ban when a suitable opportunity allowed her to enter Australia quietly. Whatever the Minister's final reply might be, there was no present indication of Alis. Freer's leaving New Zealand, said Mr. Barnett. In the meantime she was living quietly in Wellington.