UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.
(To the Editor.)
S i r _Readmg the Police Court report in a recent issue of the 'Star I felt quite surprised at the way our Justices dealt with a case of vagrancy before them. Surely foisting into anyother colony a young man who is too lazy to work and is stated to be 'the constant associate of thieves and vagabonds, and strongly suspected of burglaries lately committed in Auckland' is a most pernicious and undesirable proceeding. The same thing has been done lately in several of the cases before the Court, and if (which is most likely) the other colonies retaliate we shall be in the pretty fix of having a lot of real undesirable immigrants in our midst. Perhaps they may have been doing so, which may account for the great lot of spielers and loafers who hang around the city, and which the detectives truly state are a 'terror to Auckland.'
I think if our Justices showed a little more backbone and sent this class up to the 'Mount' for twelve months or so our police force would find that the streets would soon be cleared of these loafers, who neither sow nor spin, but prey upon their fellow-beings.—l am, etc.,
NEW ZEALANDER.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 7 February 1899, Page 2
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