PARLIAMENT

Grey River Argus, 28 July 1925, Page 3

PARLIAMENT

DEPORTATION POLICY.

AN AMENDMENT PROPOSED. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 27, Mr Peter Fraser’s undesirable itn-"'-grants Exclusion Act Amendment Bill briefly states: — 1. This Act may be cited as th • Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Amendment Aet, 1925. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of September, 1925.

Sections 5,6, 7,8, 9, 10 and 13 of the > idesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act, 1919, are hereby repealed.

The purpose of this Bill is to withdraw the powers conferred upon tr.e Attorney-General by the Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act, 1919, to prohibit any person, even a British sub ject, whom he considers to be undos rable from landing in New Zealand; er to order ariv person to leave the Dominion; or to order the arrest and deportation of any such person; without the right of recourse or appeal to the ordinary law of the Coventry on tlij part of any such person. It is proposed in this measure to repeal:-— 1 (Section 5 of the principal Act, which empowers Attorney-General to prohibit the landing of persons deemed by him, and by him alone, to be undesirable .

Section 6, which authorises the At-torney-General, by directicri of the Governor-General in Council, to order disaffected or disloyal persons to leave New Zealand.

Section 7, which empowers the At-torney-General, to order the arrest, and, if thought necessary, the detention id custody pending- deportation, of tiny person proposed to bo deported. Section 8, which enacts that a deported person is not entitled to return to New Zealand without permission in writing from the Attorney-General.

Section 13, which denies the right by trial of jury to any person accused of an offence under the principal Act, ai d extends the period during which an information ca«i be laid against any alleged offender.

The following sections of the principal Aet will consequently bo repea' -<1

Section 9, which provides for appropriating costs cf deportation. Section 10, which empowers the At torney-General to revoke orders made under the principal Aet. It is not proposed to repeal section 4 of the principal Aet, which provid-s that Germans or Austrians cannot land 'ii New Zealand without license fr < the Attorney-General.

HARBOURS AMENDMENT BILL.

A WISE PROPOSAL. WELLINGTON, Tuly 27. Mr. Monteith’s Harbours Amendment Bill is directed to deal with appeals by Harbour Board employees. The chief clauses are:

2. An Appeal Board consisting of three persons shall be set up in each Harbour Board District where either the Board or the Board’s emplovees notify the Minister that it is desired that such Board shall be established. The Board shall consist of one representative to be appointed by the Board and one representative by the employees of the Board, ana the senior Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in the district, who shall be Chairman of the Board. 3. The Board shall hear and determine all appeals by Harbour Board employees against dismissals, disratings, fines or other punishments, or reductions in pay or other emoluments inflicted by their employ, ers, and also on the grounds of promotion being unreasonably withheld -1. The determination of the Board shall in (he ease of every appeal be reported to the Minister and shall be binding on all parties and enforceable in any Court of competent jurisdiction. Every worker will wcleoine such a measure, and the Labour Party will solidly support it.