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Evening Star, Issue 18650, 3 June 1924, Page 2

Fuller precautions against the importation of mental and criminal defectives were advocated by some of the witnesses who presenled their views 10 iho .Mental Defectives Inquiry Committee at Wellington. “ I should liko to point out the imperative need for n, stricter inquiry into the intelligence of immigrants, their family history with regard to mental defects, and tlie. intelligence of their children when they are accompanied by their families,” observed Dr Clark, school medical officer at Napier, in giving evidence,. “ I have knowledge of a case near Napier in which a very feeble-minded boy accompanied his parents to New Zealand recently and has been admitted to the special class at Napier. We must provide for the. defectives of our population ; but surely it is either quixotic or stupid to import them.” Sir Hubert Stout expressed the opinion that the Elate should see that no person was allowed do land in the dominion who was mentally i -live, and pointed out -that at the present time that was not always it*- i stttod agoEL ia tba ctue o£ grfaninak, I