SYSTEM ABUSED
TEMPORARY PERMITS FOR ASIATIC MIGRANTS Dominion Special, Christchurch, October 13. Referring to the question of the admission of Asiatics to' New Zealand, the Hon. W. D. Stewart stated to-day that no permits had been granted to Chinese to enter New Zealand this vear. “We discovered,” he said, “that the system of temporary permits was being" abused and that Asiatics were coming into the Dominion and entering into various occupations, so that it was difficult to locate them when the time arrived for their departure. While their total number was much smaller than at an earlier stage of the-Domin-ion’s history, the trouble was that they were concentrated in and around the cities* as fruit merchants and laundrymen and similar occupations, and they thus make competition more severely felt. Were it not for that fact the whole of the alien population of New Zealand was so small as to be negligible.”
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 16, 14 October 1926, Page 11
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