SENT BACK TO CHINA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17328, 27 November 1919, Page 8

SENT BACK TO CHINA.

WOULD-BE IMMIGRANT FAILS. DEBARRED BY READING TEST. RAISING OF THE STANDARD. An appeal against a refusal of admission to the Dominion by the Customs Department was made by a young Chinaman named Cock Kee, who arrived yesterday from China via Fiji, before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, i The appellant, who was represented by I one of his own countrymen, said that four ■ companions had passed the education test, but he had failed. He had just come from a Chinese school, but his teachers themselves were not very proficient in ! English pronunciation. Mr. E. H. Bechler for the Customs Department said that the pass standard of education for Chinese immigrants had just been raised, and, instead of being equivalent to the second I standard in the State schools, it was now on the level of the fourth. The appellant's counsel said that had he known this he could have cabled to the youth not to come to the Dominion. On the instruction of the magistrate, the appellant was then put to the higher test, but he could recognise the letters j onlv ; the words he could not pronounce. He was accordingly ordered to return to China by a vessel sailing to-day.