UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 52, 2 March 1905, Page 2

UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

(To the Editor.* Sir, —Permit mc a small space in your valuable paper, that 1 may say a word or so with respect to the number of undesirables that are nocking into this city of Auckland by well nigh every steamer, oversea and intercolonial. I would ask is it not a fact that our police have already more than they - can well do to keep down the ruffianism that is daily increasing? I would like to draw a few comparisons to show the blindness of our Customs people, or whoever it is that has to do with these matters. How many times have the U.S.S. Co. and the H.P. Co. had to take these passage workers back to where they first took them, aboard their ship: but vessels from New York via Australian ports are allowed to bring a number of passage workers, who on touching the wharf calmly walk ashore and take up their positions at the street corners, and swell the number of the tired group, and will, perhaps, in tlie course of time be taken in custody on a. charge of vagrancy, not having a penny to maintain themselves. Now, I should like to know if the vessels that bring such men here ought not in justice to our local companies be compelled to take tiem away again.—I am, etc, T. BU&KE. Sailors Home, Auckland, February 28, 1905.