EYES ON DOMINION

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25050, 14 November 1944, Page 4

EYES ON DOMINION

POST-WAR MIGRATION INQUIRIES IN LONDON (Special Correspondent) / 1 ,'fv(Reed. 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, Not v New Zealand House continues to k '' inundated with inquiries ' who desire to live in the Doming after the war. For some time past tli post has brought an average of Sm letters a week, while a similar u um u ■' of people call in person, or bv i \ phone. The majority 'are young i ried couples with children who are k to rear their families in the Domini,.? Ihere are also an impressive nuinh * of doctors making inquiries and people with some capita] who wo ,,u like to establish businesses These people are in all probability also making similar inquiries at A .? tralia, Canada and South Afn> Houses. - ca . Some are pfepared to pav their o«-n passages to New Zealand; others desii* aid by an immigration scheme The* are, of course, informed of the Govern ment's policy of not considering an* ' scheme until New Zealand serviceman have been repatriated. ' The opinion has been axpressArt u London that by the time all New Zek landers are repatriated many of tlm people who are now making inqui rie ® will either have settled down in per manent work in England or may have emigrated to other Dominions. HOMES IN AUSTBALIA INTEREST OF BRITISH (Reed. 7.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Kot 13 "Australia has the chance of obtain ing hundreds of British immigrants after the war," said the Agent-Genp«l for" Victoria, Sir Louis Bussau has arrived in Sydney from London. He added that from personal experience lie was certain that large numbers of British people were ready and eager to come to Australia. The other Dominions had begun to select suitable post-war migrants and Australia should take similar steps to implement a live-wire immigration policy. Some of those seeking to imrnigrate had money and would need littl# financial assistance. All they asked of Australia was opportunity. CHILDREN'S BOOKS SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE PRIME MINISTER'S VIEWS The value of books for children was emphasised by the Prime Minister, Sir Fraser, in a broadcast address last night when he introduced children's book week. Mr Fraser, who spoke as patron of tho New Zealand Library Association, said that children's book week which was being held at present, waj new to. New Zealand. "This week we are taking part in unison with other free countries in a campaign to provide more and better books for children," said Mr -Fraser, who referred to the recent formation of the United States Information Library in Wellington. Its purpose was to supply New Zealand with all kinds of information about America. The director of the library, Miss Mary Parsons, had made the proposal for a children's book week.

j The slogan for children's book week was'"United through books," said Mr ■ Fraser. With a spread of knowledge of j the ways in which people lived) of the . ways in which they thought;- and of . their manners and customs, mutual hos- | tilitv and suspicion would grow less and less. The men, women and children of different countries would come to r know each other, not as foreigners, but [ as fellow human beings. The greater t the destruction of the barriers of ignor- • ance and prejudice, the closer we would get to the fellowship of nations. All of this was made possible through books. The provision of more and better children's books should he regarded as an essential service. In no other field of expenditure 'Mttld there be expectation of greater returns. > LOCAL AND GENERAL 1 Pees Written Ofl 1 The writing off of fees amounting | to £11,123 was authorised by the Auckland Hospital Board last night. The i total included £7798 in respect of fees • owing by patients and remissions amounting to £3325. ; Opossum's Predicament An opossum with its head in a small - tin alarmed residents of a house adjoin- ■ ing the One Tree Hill Domain on a re- ■ cent night by making strange thumps ' against the wall of the house. It was 1 found groping about in the garden arid ; was caught very easilv. When the tin 1 was removed from its head it struggled • and escaped. j Bats in Hospital The prevalence of rats in the Princess • Mary block at the Auckland Hospital was the subject of a report to the Hospital Board last night. It was stated . that the attention of the City Council ; had been drawn to the number of rats entering the hospital grounds from the Domain and the services of the coun* , cil's rat-catcher had been made available. Criminal Sessions Apart from two retrials of cases in which the juries disagreed the quarterly criminal sessions which began on October 25 came to an end yesterday, rour of the prisoners elected to pleads and of those who went to trial 19,wefl found guilty by juries and six acquittea. A number of those convicted Hare already been sentenced but others win come up for sentence later this wees. Prospects of Heaven When paying a tribute to the Press during an address at the Botary Clu luncheon yesterday, the Speaker or tna House of Representatives, the Hon. j•W. Schramm, recalled that an elder, member of the House of Lords usea to .epeak at such length that reporte decided to report him only with tft words: "Lord —— also spoke % 1M member complained bitterly in House and concluded by saying that . was sure no newspaper reporter enter the Kingdom of HeavenSchramm said, amid laughter, that thought newspaper hai _ as much chance of entering the JM D S* dom of Heaven as he himself had. Tuberculosis Sanatorium ■ In accordance with arecommendatio at a conference held in Auckland November last year, arrangementsi are now being made by the Health E e P® merit for a further conference of rep sentatives of hospital boards to di , the proposed establishment or a-1 ■ culosis sanatorium of 150 beds Waikato, Auckland and Bay of rleng area. The authorities concerns ar ® Auckland. Waikato, Thames., TanrMffl Bav of Plenty and Opotiki Hospital Boards. Advice was received by J"" Auckland ioard last night from Director-General of HealthyDr/M., ♦ Watt, that it was proposed to hold tn conference at Hamilton on P ece ? 7 and the board appointed the chair man, Mr A. J. Moody, Mr J. Grierson, Mr Selwvn Morris, Dr Hilda Isorthcr and Dr C. McDowell as its representatives. Trade Training Centre A start was made yesterday p* '? conversion of the former 1 Depot buildings to their new uses a trade training centre and tempora y vocational training centre for servic men. No time has been lost in movi g the R.N.Z.A.F. to its new quarters.« the former United States naval hospital in Market Road, and the mop facto*? unit of the Disabled Servicemen s i* * establishment League moved into spa vacated by the Air Force yesterd yThe factory was formerly accommodate at Hopet-ouii Street and will event r ally be located in a new Horonito Street, Dominion Road, j ■ Air Force move was almost coniple last week, and the building Yt noshared between the league and the •" * habilitation Department,