NATURALISATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5730, 27 October 1905, Page 5

NATURALISATION

(To the Editor " N.Z. Times.”) Sir,—ln your issue of the 23rd instant there is a’sub-leader on "Naturalisation” in a British colony and tho Empire. Wonld you, sir, or some of your correspondents, kindly point out of what advantage it is to an "alien” to become naturalised in New Zealand.—l am, etc., AMENDS. October 24th. (Naturalisation, according to the Aliens Act, 1880, enables the person naturalised to "enjoy all the rights and capacities which a natural-born subject of the United Kingdom can enjoy or transmit within this colony, except such rights and capacities (if any) as are specially exc.epted in the letters of naturalisation granted and issued to him.” The rights and capacities of British subjects are not defined in tho statute, but they, of course include the protection of the flag, the right to hold public offices and other privileges denied to aliens. Our law, however, allows aliens to inherit, acquire, hold, convey, assign, devise, bequeath, or otherwise dispose of every description of property, the same as if they were natural-born British subjects. Ed., "N.Z. Time*."!