RUSSIAN CHILD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18180, 30 August 1933, Page 7

RUSSIAN CHILD

PARENTS want her in n.z. COMPLICATIONS ARISE (Par Fnu Auoelatlon.) ' - ' WELLINGTON, this day. It was . stated recently that a reunion of a Russian child with parents in New Zealand after a separation of a dozen years Should take place within a few months. The parents were refugees from the Russian revolution. They had to leave an infant daughter when they escaped, through China with their other children. The family found their way to New Zealand and settled at Foxton. A letter received by Mr. Galloway, general secretary of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, from the secretary of the League of Red Cross Societies, Paris, makes it donbtful whether the child, Galena BogatiroS, will be able to come to New Zealanfl as soon as expected. The Soviet Government is asking for £IOO for a passport and £BO for passage money. Representations have been made to the Minister of External Affairs, who cabled His Majesty’s Government requesting that the British Ambassador at Moscow be asked to urge the Soviet Government to waive or reduce on humanitarian grounds the £IOO for official permission to leave the country in order that the child might be reunited with heir parents. Owing to the arrest of the child’s aunt, who had been looking after her, Mr. Galloway said matters had become even more complicated.