Students Object to Alien Laws
WELLINGTON, Dec. 17. A protest against the terms of clause 23 of the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act, 1948 “giving the Minister of Internal Affairs power, at his own discretion, to deprive naturalised persons of their New Zealand citizenship, thus making them subject to the provisions of the Aliens’ Act, 1948, was lodged by the executive of the Victoria University College Student Association in a motion passed at a recent meeting. The motion said that if any person was accused of being “disloyal or disaffected towards His Majesty, which was the offence provided lor in this clause, that persons should be entitled to a fair trial by ordinary process of law, whether he was British or not. It should require some evidence more substantial than the opinion of the Minister to condemn a person to suffer such severe penalties as loss of citizenship or deportation, the motion added.
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Grey River Argus, 18 December 1948, Page 7
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