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Eric King-Turner made headlines, but sadly had not nearly enough tight lines on the riverbank

Let us offer up a prayer for the soul of New Zealand’s oldest migrant, 104-year-old Eric King-Turner, a refined English gentleman who died in Nelson without having made use of his new season’s fishing licence but, during his brief time in New Zealand, gave thanks for being here. Then, let us place a thousand curses upon our inhuman, myopic Immigration officials, who have ordered a 28-year-old foreign student to leave Nelson and fly 19,000 kilometres to France – just because she is pregnant.

Mr King-Turner, a retired Royal Navy dental surgeon (who would have probably admitted to a lot more, had he not been so reticent), was 102 when he travelled 12,000 miles in old money to New Zealand, from Titchfield in southern England, with his New Zealand-born wife, Doris, who is a sprightly 90. He suffered a stroke at home in Mapua, and died in Nelson Hospital on November 1.

No, not New Zealand Immigration, but the horribly inverted Immigration New Zealand, where unrefined Jobsworths push pens and buttons... very, very slowly, and often in the wrong direction

Virginie Breuzard will be forced to return to her homeland within three weeks, have her baby, and then be “permitted” to fly 19,000 km back to Nelson to finish her aromatherapy course. No one should be surprised if she declines this offer, because there is a crude and uncivilised stench wafting around her treatment. Ms Breuzard will be forgiven for advising her refined countrymen and women to avoid hostile New Zealand, whose people view pregnant foreigners as repugnant, and for perhaps recommending that the French not allow tax-funded, vulgar Maori such as Hone and Hilda Harawira into Paris, lest they return to NZ with the shock news that The Da Vinci Code “put The Louvre on the map”, and that Europe, like New Zealand, is dominated by white, rapist, bullshitting mother******rs… “but you’d be a fool to miss it, eh”?

The robots at Immigration told Ms Breuzard (who has insurance covering the costs of her confinement) that she did not meet their health requirements.

This was not because she is unwell.

It was because our health service and our Immigration officials are sick.

Pregnant visitors to New Zealand are not considered to have an acceptable standard of health, “as it is likely you will impose significant costs and demands on New Zealand’s health services”. It’s not as if Ms Breuzard was angling for the baby’s NZ citizenship – that orifice was closed long ago.

Virginie says she was always up-front about being pregnant, and was surprised to be indirectly blamed for threatening undue strain on “regional shortages of antenatal care in New Zealand.” If Virginie had been a virgin, fallen off a bike and broken her ankle, ACC and the hospital would have sorted that out, no questions asked. NZ Immigration welcomes uninsured alien lesbians, too, and constantly trumpets how New Zealand is a great country for children. (But only if your Mum’s not a healthy young heterosexual Frog.)

Emigration Minister Jonathan Coleman. An alien in the background appears to be sending a negative message

So here is a guest in our country, paying her own way for education and insurance, being unceremoniously shoved onto an airliner – along with, no doubt, a few young New Zealanders who cannot afford to repay their student loans, can’t get a job and are running away to more prosperous pastures where (if they have any sense) they will stay and not pay.

Heroic old Eric, of course, never posed any challenges to “regional shortages of geriatric care”, because he obviously had enough money, a New Zealand-born spouse, and the good manners to pass away quickly without imposing further budgetary pressure on his already grief-stricken District Health Board. He also provided the heartless bastards at Immigration with lots of positive publicity, while he lasted.

Not that the Poms have much to boast about, when it comes to accepting talented immigrants. It has taken them about 70 years to erect a temporary glass-fibre statue honouring our famous flyer Sir Keith Park, who saved London from the Luftwaffe, and probably Britain from a German invasion.

Virginie would be well advised to become extremely angry at her treatment by the Immigration Department, and develop the highest possible blood pressure within the next few days.

That condition is life-threatening. It is an automatic no-no for air travel during pregnancy.