Part-Europeans
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NZ Ban on Fiji’s Part-Europeans
THE New Zealand Government has adopted a policy which virtually prohibits persons of mixed descent from visiting the Dominion, according to Mr. Maurice H. Scott at the recent meeting of the Fiji Legislative Council.
Mr. Scott’s protest expressed the resentment of many Fiji people of mixed descent. In recent years the NZ regulations governing admittance of people from Fiji have been in tensified in this direction, although it is significant, as Mr. Scott pointed out, that people of mixed descent serving with the Fiji Government have no difficulty in obtaining permits.
One interesting and rather illogical case concerns a woman of mixed descent who had great dif ficulty in obtaining a temporary permit to visit her son. Her mother was a Wallis Island woman and her father a European ship’s captain trading for years in the South Pacific. Her grandfather, a Euro pean, fought as a sergeant in the Maori wars.
The son she wished to visit had been able to enter the Dominion, where he now occupies a good posi tion.
Many people from New Zealand
find good positions in Fiji, but apparently it is to be a one-way traffic.— Suva Correspondent. t The annual report of the Societe Francaise des Niles. Hebrides shows a profit of 26i million francs against 30i milions for 1954.
If The Roman Catholic parish Priest of Port Moresby, the Rev. Father Father, celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his ordination on December 1. He was ordained in St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney by the late Archbishop Kelly, and spent the first 8 years of his priesthood as a teacher at the Sacred Heart College, Too woomba. He then moved to Central Australia and remained ten years at Alice Springs before proceeding to the Territory, where he has been parish priest of Port Moresby since 1949. t The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr. John Gutch, paid a short visit to the New Hebrides in November.