"GROSS INDIGNITY."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 26 June 1912, Page 5

"GROSS INDIGNITY."

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY

A PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT

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SYDNEY, June 25

The Sydney Morning Herald, under the heading "Gross Indignity," publishes the following report:. "Because she happened to have some colored blood in her veins, being a half-caste Samoail, the Customs authorities have subjected the daughter of a Briton, and the wife of a Briton, who came from NeAv Zealand to Sydney for a holiday, to considerable annoyance and inconvenience, only granting her permission to land on condition that she leaves by the end of the month. The lady is Mrs Dowell,.. wife of an official of the Bank of New Zealand, living at Suva. She arrived with her husband by the steamer Wimmera, intending to make a tour of the East. On the ground that she was a prohibited immigrant, the lady, who is a daughter of the late Mr Meredith, was ordered to remain on ime steamer pending instructions. Meanwhile Mr Dowell visited the Customs office, and after a great deal of crossquestioning, obtained a certificate of exemption, on the strength of his assurance that his wife would leave AusraiVa 7 eiore tne end of the month " Mr Dowell complains of the doss indignity to which he and bis wife have been subjected, and the Herald in an editorial commenting on the matter says: "It seems as if the Federal Government is determined to give the Commonwealth the worst possible name in the enforcement of the White Australia policy The way in which the lady was treated makes one wonder what sort of .Nemesis will overtake us in the future when Australia will have to reap the as°thi! "atl' eCl *°Wn f''om J'"St BUch Seed