ANNOYING RESTRICTIONS.
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; : : (Per Press Association.) Received June 30, 'at 10 a.m s . '""; = ' • /''■■:■ -■; ...Sydney, Juiie ; 3o.,^| The shipping companies complain of ! assing effect, of ' the Alien.. Restriction Act in regard to shipwrecked Asiatics'. ■ - The Union. Company is -the latest victim. The JBritish law, lays'it. db'w'ri'that distressed seamen^must be: landed from a wreck, and. makes no distinction of color.. . The Australian law -prevents' the: landing of aliens. The Tofua: brought .up the ■ ship-f wrecked crew of theKilburn frorn Fiji, \ mostly Asiatics, vand found she could: not-'larid so jthat; the meuKwere! takeii -b'ack : to'i3ie islands, but one' escaped for which-the Company is liable to a fine of £IOO. -'1
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10494, 30 June 1910, Page 4
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110ANNOYING RESTRICTIONS. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10494, 30 June 1910, Page 4
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