TRAVELLING PERMITS
WOMEN DISCOURAGED INTERESTS OF SAFETY (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday Except in exceptional circumstances, permits to leave New Zealand are not being issued to women desirous of travelling to England. A number of applications has been received by the Government from women of various ages who originally came from England and wish to return, while others are from young New Zealand-born women who desire either to make a trip to the Old Country or to settle there permanently. “Despatches from the Home authorities,” said the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, “clearly indicate that permits should be granted only in exceptional or necessitous circumstances. This rule is being closely followed with the applications that continue to come in. It is hard to disappoint the applicants, but the decision is made for their own safety. The decision to evacuate British children to the Dominions should influence women against making applications to leave New Zealand just now.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21155, 3 July 1940, Page 9
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