REUNION DELAYED

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1933, Page 5

REUNION DELAYED

GIRL AND PARENTS RUSSIAN REFUGEES IN N.Z. . , • ' • 'V»; ... (Per Press Association—Copyright). • . WELLINGTON, August 30. It was stated , recently - that the .reunion of a Russian child with her parents in New Zealand .after separation for a dozen years sh'oilld take place within a few months.;,'' • The parents were refugees from the Russian Revolution, <r- find they had to leave their infant daughter when they escaped through-.China’with the older children. The family, found' their' . way to New Zealand and settled in Foxton. ’ . -.. -‘ , - , -

A letter, received;by- Air (G.allpway, general secretary of the New-,..Zealand Red Cross Society,f from the Secretary of the League of • Red. .Cross; Societies in Paris, makes it doubtful whether the child, Galena Bogatiroff, will be able to come to New Zealand, as. soon as was expected., -The 1 Soviet , Government is asking £loo' for;;, her passport, and £BO passage money. . ... ‘ ■ ,

Representatives -.have been, made to the Minister of- Internal Affairs, .who has cabled His (Majesty’s Government, requesting that |h£.(British- ambassador. at Moscow be asked , to urge the the Soviet Governments- to- W waive. or reduce on huinanitar-ian .grounds, the« £IOO for official permission (to.-.lstve the., country .in -order;that'-.ths child,.might be reunited .with her -parents.: ’. .( ■ , Owing to ’the, arrest of.-the child’s aunt, who her, Mr Galloway Isaid that matters had become ever more complicated.-.,. * .