Calwell’S Ban
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Bitterness In The Central Pacific
Prom a Special Correspondent
Auckland, Aug. 2.
THE Australian Minister, Mr. Calwell, has certainly stirred un some re sentment in Pacific isles by his brusque expulsion of a Tongan-born lady from Australia’s shores.
The repercussions of such an act will be very great, and the ill-feeling aroused will take some placating.
The other day. we were speaking to well-known residents of Samoa, who mentioned the subject with much bitter ness. Both of them are part-Samoan.
His grandfather was a British Consul once in Levuka, and his erand-uncle was a British Consul in Tahiti. I believe the latter wrote books about the Pacific islands. The man himself is an Old Boy of King’s College, Auckland, and his son is now a boarder there.
He is now wondering how this ban of Calwell’s is going to affect him and his wife, who wants to visit Australia next year to see the Royal Family.
There must be many who are wondering just what the world is coming to, when perfectly respectable people are pushed around in this fashion.