IMPERIAL NATURALISATION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 154, 15 June 1911, Page 1

IMPERIAL NATURALISATION.

THE DOMINION’S RIGHTS.

London, June, 14. Mr. Batchelor, in moving* his resolution at the Imperial Conference said that every dominion must determine whom to admit to citizenship. He said it was no part conference’s work to lay downrules. Nothing could be done with: regard to Imperial naturalisation: except by the dominions themselves. The conditions in the various dominions varied : ably. He asked whether it waaZ* worth while to give aq Imperial certificate with a standard ing the most drastic conditions rn>. posed in any dominion. In that, way Imperial naturality might be secured without interfering, with the dominions’ right to compel an applicant to comply with local requirements.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier urged that British subjects anywhere should be recognised anywhere. Sir Joseph Ward, referring to the Imperial Draft Bill, said that the equalisation of the laws as to British citizenship must be £ept entirely separate from the question of the naturalisation of aliens Jf that- was done and the dominiqh* ' retained the power to exclude zenship throughout the Emnire. Mr. Malan saw practical difficulties existing in two sets of cates which the draft bill pronosed He agreed with Sir W. La£tier*a view.