STRANDED NEW ZEALANDERS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2678, 14 January 1921, Page 6

STRANDED NEW ZEALANDERS

DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSPORT. Electric Telegraph— Press Association Copyright. (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) Sydney, January 13. Five 'hundred sti-auided New Zealanders held a meeting at the Town Hall, at which Air Plow (the New Zealand Government Agent) stated he ha<l cabled to the New Zealand Government asking that a steamer be sent to transport the stranded people, and had received a reply’ asking him to try to persuade the Unt ion Company to carry as many as possible dll the Manuka and Aloemki, but no mention was made of a Government steamer. He presumed that one would not he sent, and added that the Government would continue to provide for immigrants brought out under the overseas settlement scheme, but help for other necessitous cases would only be given very sparingly. Throe hundred New Zealanders departed oil the Alanuka, which left at 10 a.in., leaving about seven hundred held up. Indignation is expressed at the Union Company granting parages to Americans on, the Tofua in preference to New Zealaders. Three hundred and fifty of the latter expect to sail on the Moeraki on January 20th,.