R. A. Lochore, a civil servant who had lived in Europe and spoke several languages, wrote this book about ‘our continental European settlers’. He favoured further European immigration, but represented the prejudices of the times. Scandinavians, who ‘hardly seem foreign at all’, were welcome. Asians were to be kept out because they could not be expected to quickly become New Zealanders – even though New Zealand already had a community of native-born Chinese.
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Reference:
R. A. Lochore, From Europe to New Zealand: an account of our continental European settlers. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed/New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1951.
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