CHINESE IMMIGRANTS.
MANY MORE THAN USUAL COMINC. (Br TELEOKAI'H—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, October 5. Inquiry at the Auckland Customs Department to-day elicited the fact that many more Chinese thau • usual aro coming into this port. No fewer than 64 have como in since May last, a3 compared with 21 for the same months of last year. For July, August, and September there wero 24 now arrivals, paying £2400 poll tax, compared with five new arrivals for that period of 1907. These new arrivals, or each of . them who can speak English, verify tho statement that many more aro waiting in Sydney to get over before the imposition of the reading test, which comes into force on October 23.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 320, 6 October 1908, Page 7
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117CHINESE IMMIGRANTS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 320, 6 October 1908, Page 7
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