A YANKEE DODGE
TO GET REVENUE. PASSENGERS PROTEST. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND', This Day. The increase from two dollars to ten dollars in the charge for the use of passports to all British passengers travelling to the United States or Canada, via Honolulu, was recently notified by the Department of State at Washington, and will come into effect with the soiling of the Tahiti to-morrow. The charge, which at the present rate of exchange, will amount to about £2 10s per passenger, will mean something like £IOOO per ship. Many passengers declare that they would much prefer to remain on board ship during the stav at Honolulu, but the charge is imposed, irrespective of whether +hev Avish to land or riot. Protests have been made to the American Consul-General Iw the Union Comnany and by , the Canadian Trap; Commissioner Bed (Re against the now regulation. Mr T *''ddoe also communicated with the Minister of Internal Affairs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 July 1920, Page 5
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