JAPANESE MIGRANTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23092, 18 July 1938, Page 8

JAPANESE MIGRANTS

SUGGESTION CRITICISED DISCUSSION AT WELLINGTON [BV TELEGRAPH —OWN" CORRESPONDENT] Saturday "Had tliose remarks been published only in Now Zealand, and not gone outside. 1, for one, and I think all New Zealanders, would have ignored them," said Mr. E. Whitcombe, of Palmerston North, at the Wellington Diocesan Synod, when discussing a suggestion by Bishop Cherriugton that land in New Zealand bo offered to Japanese

migrants. "When we find such remarks published to the world, and the Japanese apparently accepting them in good faitli, and saying they are quite prepared to send people to New Zealand, I feel it is necessary for this synod ,to make it plain that such views do not meet with its approval," said Mr. Wliitcombe "There are plenty of people in this world similar to us in political, religious and social ideas, who will bus and fuse with us and help to swell the New Zealand population without materially altering it. "Can we dream of inviting an infids nation which is showing itself by iw behaviour in China to be a natio utterly without honour, and brutal m warfare?" The Rer. N. F. E. Robertshawe (St. Mark's, Wellington), then moved tha the matter be debated i.i committeeLater it was reported that, no ac 10 had been taken.