CHECK ON ALIENS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23338, 5 May 1939, Page 6

CHECK ON ALIENS

NO ILLEGAL fflTKy M SOUTH AFRICAN PROp6 B |jjS SYSTEM OF P [from our ow:s* corresponde*,v CAPETOW.'CI.iB A system for registering alieng thorough that not a single alien *i]] ? fe| able to live in or move about in SoJt'fef Africa unknown to the authorities Jn be introduced by the new Aliens KgJ- >f'k tration Bill. The bill makes prori?" for the following:— '5 - u - Employers and those in charge "*•! hotels, boarding houses, flats and ana,! ; incuts will be compelled to gjv e • formation about aliens or suspend Ss3f aliens on their premises. * ! | Masters of ships will have to rennn fcl alien passengers who leave the TJ T'! Aliens convicted under the nrnt*, 3 ; Act will be deported. Wsed g| Places will be established ' aliens who cannot be repatriated be detained until they can be removi —regulations for the control of tw places being subject to proclamation >•'! Provision is made for the exemptj c ' by the Minister of any alien from th! provisions of the Act suW tution of other provisions which t!i '•••' - Minister may apply to exempt*] aliens. . . | The bill is stated to have two 0 v jfiil jects. One is to stop the illegal entry !• I into the Union of aliens who cojJ! from the north by evading posts under the supervision of the immigration •%! authorities; and the other is to enak'a the Government to know immediately 1 in the event of an outbreak of * ar ' just where enemy subjects are and pa»l ticularly those suspected of beiii' M potentially dangerous. ' ™ l^| The register will he confined to ft 1 aliens of more than 17 years of' aze The bill classifies all- people exeep; f British subjects, Union nationals and' naturalised Union nationals as aliem Naturalised British subjeefs are thai included as aliens.