GATES SHUT
TILL TEST PASSED.
EMIGRATION RULES.
WILL THEY STEM THE TIDE,
" Times " —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Received February 12, 9 a.m.) LONDON, February 11. It is oxpoeted that the new medical inspection of emigrants will hj" fully operating at tho end of March. It refers to every town where there is * passenger agent.
Officials repudiate th*> suggestion that tho scheme will seriously afreet emigration to Australia, and say that Canada and the other dominions are earnestly and sympathetically watching developments. Thoy regard the fuet that one hundred British emigrants to tho United States aro not admitted monthly, because of unfitness, as .sufficient warning and full justification for u careful medical examination here.
The officials declare that passenger agents aro not generally protesting, though tho shipping companies aro not pleated, especially at the compulsory examination of first and second-class passengers.
A prominent agent asserts that the transatlantic shipping companies are laughing and clapping their hands at the prospect of a diversion of Australian immigrants to Canada and the United States.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11000, 12 February 1914, Page 5
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