SOUTHERN EUROPEANS.
INFLUX INTO AUSTRALIA. NOT THE TYPE WANTED. PROTEST TO THE GOVERNMENT. United Tress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. I PERTH, August 17. The tourist class passengers by Hie , Otranto, which arrived at Fremantle to-day from London, held a meeting in I the course ol‘ the voyage and decided • to forward a petition to the Commonwealth against tiie large influx of , Southern Europeans into Australia. t; The spokesmen for the petitioners n was Alderman J. Harrop, of Rock- e hampton, Queensland, who is return- a ing from a holiday I rip. Mr Harrop said the Otranto had u ]; liirge number of foreign migrants on e board who were not tiie type wanted h in Australia. He had read that three other liners were following with 600 h nationals, chiefly Italians, Greeks, t Yugoslavs and Germans. a A member of the Federal Parlia- ir ment, Mr Boland Green, who was also a passenger, said lie intended to bring the matter up in Parliament.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20275, 18 August 1937, Page 7
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161SOUTHERN EUROPEANS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20275, 18 August 1937, Page 7
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