ALIEN SUBJECTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3170, 22 August 1917, Page 4

ALIEN SUBJECTS

and public positions. In discussing Jlr. Vigor Brown's Naturalised -Subjects Franchise Bill at the meeting of tho executive of the NewZealand Municipal Association yesterday very stroujr objection tvjis taken. by MiJ w. M'Ewan (Petone) to any enemy subject or person of enemy origin being appointed to a public position of any kind, vet, he said, such tpp.antracnts had been made. He knew of a recent case where a man of enemy origin had been appointed to a position by the Government It w not when such men were put over the heads of better men who were loyal subjects of said that it had com© to his knowledge where certain naturalised subjects or those of enemy i origin had met together to drink tho Kaiser s health on his birthday. J hat suc.i Ij'.-'M could ho among men who were livingunder tho protection of the British flaff was amazing, and at the same timo very r X h ex™ 6 tive. which agreed with the sneakers, deckled after a brief that the Bill should provide that no unnaturalised enemy subjects allowed to vote at any election, and that no enemy subject or subject of enemy origin should bo appointed to any position within the gift of the Crown.