"SOME" IMMIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 8

"SOME" IMMIGRANTS.

WHAT AMERICA GIVES US. GAOL BIRDS AND LUNATICS. AN A.-TD.MMII.M; .-['ATCXiI-.N t. ill.v Tl'lo.raph mill I n,,-os;, , n .|e.| , XX'l'd l.lNiiT'iN, this day. : Miiieiiicuts llir.iuing intere.-tin. light .-ii Ihe Anii'i'iciin initiii_i.it i.,i> bm-, c-pc. ially ~ it li re.ar.l In the .]. pm l.i i ion ■•I undesirables. -.wro made i,, day in .. New Zenlaiidei, Mr. A. XX. XVin'u \V-I-liiini-. '..ill-lb . Hi- it nl i lie American steatiici XX, -i ( al.-,a. xibicli i. a l pre -.-nl al I vltcliou, Mr. XXv nn William- :- paving'a brief xisit to XV.-Ilington to leu.."i in- ac.nii'iliaiice uiib the ..lli.-ial. of I'.ie I. Ilioil ,"s..s. I ~., |,y wln.-Ii cnmpalix be nn- emu loved for some time, lir-i in tin-, ioi.i! obicc and laiicvlv a- pnr-cr. lie -aid tiiat be bad noticed from >,-.. Zealand niibci u',|i.ii he bad received I'nal Iberc had been a en-i.lei able milill' lid'C a'noil! die niatiner in which Nexv Zeiitointoi. were trealed while knot at Angel Island at Mm l-'ram i-o. and in xicw of that fact he made it bis bii.-inc.* in pay :i xi.-ii In Ihe island for ihe pur pose i.f in rrlaining the I rue state nf affairs.

Mr. Williams found nboiil 4WI people there awaiting depiirtal inll '" various parts n f the umld. and he iiitcrviexved nboii! is übo were heine "cul In Nexv /cabin,!. Mc ua - astonished to find tint a lumber of these pontile did not know (be lir-i tbino about New Zealand. Tln-v bud to g.. somewhere, and. hearing Hun tlie I>,.iiiiiii,,,i «a* a "-nod i.hi.o ill w lii.-li" 1., live I bey told lb.- American oilicials ibal tb.-v wore Nexv Za ..landers. Tin- oilicials. xvlu. showed nn astonishing ignorance of New Zealand. t"..k the -tory in and booked the immigrants for Nexv Zealand. The result was that Nexv Zealand "us recoivinc an undesirable addition to her population. ! The authorities were ye, v 1"\. said Mr. Williams and allow edanybodv to leave the country, their only concern l.ein. thai they should leaxe America. He could quote case- xvhere mental de feiiix.-- and gaolbird-, were being dumped on Sew- Zealand nnd Australia. Mr. Williams stated that great difficulty uas experienced in pcttin- men to co- In -••a in America, and the master- of Cue -hips vex- often bad lo haxe recourse ~, the gaols in order to gel crews. 'Pus meant that the crews of American ship? xvere :i xery mixed lot.