UNDESIRABLE VISITORS.
Per Press Association
Wellington, February 25
The Attorney-General issued an order recently prohibiting the landing in New Zetland of two men who reached a Dominion port from Australia Subsequently, Messrs Glover and Roberts, representing the watersiders, waited npon the Minister for the explanation. In the course of his reply, Sir Francis Bell stated that he was satisfied the persons in . question were of such character that their presence in New'Zealand would be injurious to public safety. He had arrived at ;that conclusion upon information which was satisfactory to him. He conld not disclose the informacion’npon which he acted. It was one of the mcst important elements of public policy and security that sources of information, whether of the Government or the police, were absolutely sacred. The Minister added that nobody hated more than he did the exercise of power of the kind, bnt in certain instances the power should exist.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11764, 26 February 1919, Page 5
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152UNDESIRABLE VISITORS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11764, 26 February 1919, Page 5
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