IMMIGRANTS' GRIEVANCE.
NOT ALLOWED TO LAND.
By Telegraph.-Press Association.—Copyright. London, July 23. In replying to a question in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. Philip Snowden (Labour member for Blackburn), Mr. Lewis Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies) said that he had forwarded to the Commonwealth Government some letters in which a resident of Whalley (Lancashire) had complained that he was not allowed to land in West Australia on the ground that ho was short-sighted, although during the last 20 years he had never lost a day's work through sickness or physical inability to earn his living. , '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 7
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99IMMIGRANTS' GRIEVANCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 7
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