FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS
ARRIVAL AT WELLINGTON FEAR OF WAR IN EUROPE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Further parties of foreign immigrants arrived at Wellington by the Maunganui. They comprised four German Jews and a large party of Dalmatians. The German migrants would say nothing of the conditions that forced them to abandon the land of their birth, but. the Dalmatians said they had come to New Zealand to “live.” Wages in Dalmatia had fallen by half, and food was v6ry dear.
“YVhen we heard.that there was a Labour Government here,” said one of them, “we decided to come. Everyone at home is talking war, but war is no good for the working people. 1 ’
The Dalmatian population of New Zealand numbers 3000.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19370204.2.37
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 4
Word Count
122FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 4
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in