THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES.
INDIGENT AUSTRALIANS. Since distress in Australia became acute it has been a question how far this country should go in providing ~ employment and charitable aid for arrivals from the Commonwealth, Alontlis ago attention was drawn to the number of steerage passengers arriving from Sydney and Alelbourme. Now it has been reported to the AYaikato Hospital Board that the. Board had bean assisting several families tlmt had arrived from Australia without means, and the Board is communicating with the- Government. This country ■,need not be so exclusive as Canada, but it has something to learn from Canadian policy. Our duty to our own “citizens requires us to prevent persons penniless and witnout prospects from coining to New Zealand, and it should not be difficult to frame regulations to this end. —Auckland Star.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1931, Page 4
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135THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1931, Page 4
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