THE NATIONALITY OF THE HON. A. MYERS
0STATEMENT BY Mil. MASSEY. A lady at tho meeting at Kelburn last night asked Mr. Massey whether It was true as sho had heard, that tho Hon. Mr. Myers, Minister of Munitions, was a German.
Mr. Massey said that lie knew something of Mr. Myers's history. Mr. Myers belonged to tho Jewish race. He was born at BaTlarat, Australia. His family on the father's side, had been in England for two. hundred years, but his grandfather had gone from England to Poland aB a Rabbi, and Mr. Myers's father had been bom there. Mr. Myers's father came out to Australia and married there."'- Mr. Myers came over to New Zealand and joined some relatives here, taking up public life very early in his career. "I want to say this," said Mr. Massey, "that I honestly believe that Mr. Myers is a loyal citizen of our Empire. He is a British citizen by birth, and as a Minister I know that he has done his duty faithfully and well."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 133, 22 February 1918, Page 4
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175THE NATIONALITY OF THE HON. A. MYERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 133, 22 February 1918, Page 4
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