ENTRY OF ALIENS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 22 December 1926, Page 19

ENTRY OF ALIENS.

LEGISLATIVE RESTRICTIONS. KO CHINESE PERMITS THIS YEAR. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star."» DUNEDEST, this day. The acting-Prime Minister, Hon. W. Downie Stewart, replying to a protest by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce against the number of Asiatics entering the Dominion, states that in 1920 legislation was passed -which gave the Government ample power to impose an effective restriction on the number of aliens or race aliens (including Asiatics) entering New Zealand for permanent residence. So far as he was aware no other country had a more effective means of controlling such immigration. The following figures showed the numbers of Indians and Chinese admitted to > T ew Zealand during the last ten years and demonstrated the effect of the amending legislation, which came into effective operation on April 1, 1921, in restricting the immigration of persons of those nationalities: —Indians: 1915, 13; 1916, 92; 1917, 92; 1918, 13S; 1919, 193; 1920, 225; 1921, 137; 1922, 8; 1923, 32; 1924,44; 1925, 149. Chinese: 1915, 265; 1916, 1327; 1917, 272: 1918, 256; 1919, 418; 1920, 147J; 1921, 255; 1922, 162; 1923, 100; 1924, 93; 1925, 58. So far as the Chinese were concerned, said Mr. Stewart, the Government was not issuing any permits for permanent residence during' the present year.