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Tongan Lady
The Incredible Colwell and His White Australia Policy
THE incredible Mr. Calwell, Australian Minister for Immigration, is pulling boner after boner in his furious de termination to apply the “White Aus tralia Policy,” and please some section or other of his hairy-chested Left-Wingers.
His latest achievement is to inform Mr.
Stewart Garrick, of Perth, that his Tongan wife, and their two daughters, must de part from Australia by September. Mrs.
Garrick, is a cousin of Queen Salote, and she was married in the Queen’s chapel, in Nukualofa, 13 years ago.
The White Australia Policy was de signed to discourage the entry of Asiatics into Australia. Under other Govern ments, it was always applied with tact and discrimination. It certainly was never intended to apply to the native peoples of the Islands, and least of all to Poly nesians. There are hundreds —perhaps thousands —of Polynesian people living in Australia, mostly New Zealand Maoris. It is unthinkable that the ban should be applied to them.
The incident probably will cause fire works in the Australian Parliament. Mr.
Calwell is heartily disliked by the Oppo sition generally: and a leading member thereof is Sir Earle Page, whose brother, Rev. Rodger Page, was for so long adviser to the Queen of Tonga. It was he who married Mr. and Mrs. Garrick.