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WELLINGTON, March 5. "I'm in favour of imniigration from Great Britain to the Doniinions, but J think it 's urong lo take ittdi viduals: inv idea is thaf whole eonnnunities should be shifled, the ]>eople of a coni])lete village, " Alr. D. (i. Stokes, export. nianager for Leylaml Motors, Ltd. said in :in iuterview. " lrumigrants, wives partteulariv, wero likely to be lonely in :i strango country, but if tliey were with people! tltey knew and lutd lived nmong. j niativ of the initial diilicult ies would I be avoided. I " Anv niinor irritations jieopie fruit: j Great Britain feel in New Zealand are! because thev are in a country so murh J like their own in everv wa.v; in t. ' foroign country tliey would not complain, but tliey probablv would not be as happv as tliey are liere, " he added. Alr. Stokes has beeu trnvolling tli rough New Zealand for severn I weeks. He is on a business trip lo see. local conditious for liimself, and al ready he has visited several of the Doniinions.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 March 1948, Page 5
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