IMMIGRATION ACT
THE LANGUAGE TEST KISGH'S APPEAL UPHELD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, December 19. Deciding that Scottish Gaelic, in which Egon Kisch was subjected to a dictation test, was not a European language within the meaning of the Commonwealth Immigration Act, the High Court of Australia upheld Kisch’s appeal and Quashed his conviction as a prohibited immigrant. The court ordered the Crown to pay the costs of all legal proceedings to date. Mr Justice Stark was the only dissenting judge among five on the Bench.
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Evening Star, Issue 21908, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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85IMMIGRATION ACT Evening Star, Issue 21908, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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