SMUGGLED IN.
CHINESE IN AUSTRALIA. A SYSTEM AND LARGE PROFITS. PURCHASE OF NATURALISATION PAPERS. (UT TILEGK.U'H—r/iESS ASSOCIATION—COI'VIIIfi lit.) 4 Sydney, February 27. Thcro is littlo (loubt that largo numbers of Chinoso aro smuggled into Australia, and that iho method of conducting cperutioiu js making largo profits for tho agents of tho system, who, it is reported, liavo boasted that 2000 wero smuggled into Australia last year. A3 each Chineso pays tho system about £125, tho receipts would have amounted to a quarter of a million. The system is to purcliaso naturalisation papers at prices ranging from £6 to £15, and theso aro sent China for tho use of thoso to be smuggled in. Twelve young Chineso have been arrested for possessing tho naturalisation papers of old Chinese. ■ Thoso arrested aro to bo deported. ■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 444, 1 March 1909, Page 7
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133SMUGGLED IN. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 444, 1 March 1909, Page 7
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