AUSTRIAN GUM-DIGGERS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14196, 7 June 1916, Page 6

AUSTRIAN GUM-DIGGERS.

(From Onit Own Corkksponi/ENT.)

Wellingicn, Jvne 6. In the House of Representatives today the member for Bay of Islands avk'ed the Government -whether steps would bo taken to. protect British settlers by the refusal of gumdiggers licenses to Awtrians a,nd other enemy aliens H' 1 n.-jiafcod out, umid enco'iragincr as:ri«?s'from Mr Payne, that AusIrians v. - ■ c s'> ram^-rous in the North that the-./ xerc likely to be a menace to British ij^ers unless steps were wkon to pre-. i';'io tiie,-;o enemy aliens from reaping .- I^.rvrsb at l!io expense of Britisli .subjects.- • ■