EX-SERVICE MEN.
CONDITIONS OF MIGRATION j By Telegraph —Press* Association —Copyright I Australian anti N.Z. < a,ble Association. (Received December 6, 10.5 a.m.) ' LONDON. December 5. The Commonwealth Migration Department. replying to allegations of states that the system lias been drastically revised. It assumes that the criticism i< largely directed against British ex service men iyho migrated of their-own accord, or against migrants dispatched before March last, when the Department accepted the certificate or the applicants’ family doctor. As the result of this system, it was found that doctors sometimes issued certificates to men of unsound health, in the hope that the sea voyage and change of climate would effect a cure. In order to obviate the dispatch of unfits, the | Department in March last insisted on the production of the certificate of an * independent medical referee, that the | migrant was of sound constitution, and was capable of earning a living in the occupation lie intends to follow.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16908, 6 December 1922, Page 7
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