DANGEROUS DEGENERATES.

NZ Truth, Issue 952, 23 February 1924, Page 3

DANGEROUS DEGENERATES.

Are They Being Bred, or Imported?

The great incrcaso In the visible evidence of degeneracy, and m the number of dangerous sexual degenerates, raises the question whether this Increase la part of the natural increase of population m New Zealand, or whether the trouble is being Increased by immigration. In Australia they have no doubt about the undesirable quality of a considerable proportion of recent Immi(jrnnts from Britain. (See the article on pr»RG 12 of "Truth" of February 9. concerning the doings on the immigrant steamer Bordu.) POSITION IN AUSTRALIA. Brisbane "Truth." under the heading "Stocking Australia with Sex Perverts," tnkos up this matter and writes: "Police circles throughout the Commonwealth nre promised a busy season by a section of the migrants being dumped on our too-hospitable shores by every fihln arriving. Almost daily the Australian papers report on sea of indecent assaultß on females by migrants who have been a few weeks or months m the country. In several recent ensos the victims have been young children. Promises were made that tho regulations would be tightened Up In order to prevent the trnnßfer to Australia of mental defoe- , tlves and sexual degenerate*. But the pxtra rare manifested for a few months has evaporated: official energy has wilted; and Australia Is once more bolng made a tip for Great Britain's human gnrbna-(\ "P,y recent Immigrant vessel*, pnrt'cnlnrlv those of the 'one clnss.' *hrt«il« of dcf'Ttlvps, th« ««\v«'<*plnp-s of Britain's filtering slums, nro being dnmnr>fl on ntir Khnrc>», and loft to shift for thorn* elvoß. No proper mod ion I swnorvlf'nn nnpoarH to be exercised by Australia Hout«o ofllclalH, of which there nro HforcH. nnd tho class of both nominated and nsslsted migrants parsed »« 'Jlf is of the poorest quality. Migrants rejected by Canada. South Africa, New Jiwilnml. and th«» T'olt^ri i^s tr> t «*•«, nre wel^omM til AuslrMMn Holism, nnd pa!»-»cd ;ts 'selected.' The srandulous condurt of many of these v»"»treN rmtn Whltechft'pol. Seven niahi. Hntclinfe Highway, and Pottleoat Tjine. on the veswls hy which they travel to Atistrnlln. ha« formed the fnihiw»t of i»>nnmerable articles m the Australian Press.