UNDESIRBLE IMMIGRANTS,

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 154, 30 June 1914, Page 7

UNDESIRBLE IMMIGRANTS,

EXCLUSION OF HINDUS

PEO'PO?Ei) LBHALATION

(By Telesrapn.—rarllnmcntary Reporter.}

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Tlie Immii:r.ition Ret-trictiun Amendmriit. 'Aci.. 1!»H. nutiee of ]!ie inircnlttition of which has been given by the Hon. I". .M. B. Fisher fMink-toT in 'rlwrge of tihe Imnrijrration t)e|<a.rtmcut) eoutains come important provieiona re-l.ning to the j-mmSgration of Ilindiii'. The principal claute in ihe bill will repeal HU.hil. t--ec!ion 14. of 1 n> principal Act. irbiuh p-aaits I'xnraption from the eduea.LKin tTiSt 1 1> people of Jirit ish or lri*h bir:.)t and , parratage. so that Hindus and oilier A-ia.ties from countries within the British Krnpire can no longer put forward a claim 10 enter New Zealand on ihe t-vorc of their British nationality. It. will he. neert-.sary for any person, when askeii , ;<> <b> s<> by an ollteer of the Customs, to write out ami >-i;n in :iny RliropeaJi /.inp(ap< wdefted. liy that piTFnn, an iipplit-atk)?; form, which i>s to ho written in the pntwiirr »f (lie CiWtoms offlniT. IThrrf mv.-i, be nut lift than ">i» w.onlc in the. application. snd the. eufturtance of the writing wliall be from the; dictation of the Custom* nilienr. Twenty minutes will be allowed Sot writing the .-,(> words. ProTisioii it= made for ihe exclusion of in. nr conneetetl wiuii. the \rhtte slave traffk". and deule. also, with the exolilE-ion of insan.> pe.ivone and idTottJ. and persons from any danfrerous nr lout'liKome infection or crnuafri-oiifi diee-aw. InfoTraation fir any onViiee arr.iinst Hie principal 'Act committed after ihe pausing of the amending IA(H m.iv l>e ]>i.iii a.t. any time within Jive years of the dal* of .the olTom-e. 'In any procoedingt? iimfe-r tho principal Aei the burden of provif that a petvon iias not entered, or remainerli in. Nw in contravention ot that Ai-t shall be on that perenn.