ITALIANS NOT WANTED

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1930, Page 9

ITALIANS NOT WANTED

SIGNIFICANT REJECTION

LANDING IN SYDNEY STOPPED

MANY BOOKED TO BRISBANE

NO COMMENT BY MINISTER

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 8.40 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 3; Sixty-six Italian migrants who arrived by the Orient liner Orford at Sydney to-day were not allowed to land under instructions of the Federal Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Arthur Blakeley. • It is understood GO are booked for Brisbane, presumably en route to the canefields of Northern Queensland, where there have recently been clashes between foreigners and the British. The acting-Prime Minister, Mr. J. E. Fenton, declined to comment, saying it was a matter of international significance and he was anxious to avoid complications. The G 6 migrants are being sent back to Italy, sailing on the Orama on Saturday. A hundred. Italians on the incoming Otranto are also being returned and 200 more about to embark on the Italian motor-ship Romolo for Australian ports have been stopped by cablegram. The Australian immigration authorities explain that the only Italian migrants now alloWed into the Commonwealth are those who desire to join relatives, or who have been nominated by relatives. ' , / - <