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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1685, 15 June 1904, Page 15

Fourteen Chinamen arrived from Sydney by the Victoria yesterday. Eight were strangers to the colony. The Treasury is thus enriched by £BOO. In every case, without exception, Chinamen have to pay the Government polltax, not in Wellington, but at Hongkong, where the credentials of each departing Celestial are looked into by the British authorities. Every Chinaman, whether he has been to the colony before or not, has to deposit £IOO. and the amount is forwarded on to the New Zealand Customs through the agency of the steamship company the emigrant travels 'by. After the pajvvt-o cm found to be in order, and identity as a previous resident in New. Zealand lias been established, the tax may be refunded 1 .