WHITE AUSTRALIA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1476, 26 June 1912, Page 5

WHITE AUSTRALIA.

HARSH ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Sydney, June 25. Tho "Sydney Morning Herald," under the heading "A Grose Indignity" publishes a report that, because she happened to have some' coloured blood in her veins, and was a half-casto Samoan, the Customs authorities subjected a daughter of a Briton and the wife of a Briton, who came from New Zealand to Sydney for a holiday, to considerable annoyance and inconvenience, only granting her permission to land on condition that she- left by tho end of the month. The lady is Mrs. Dowell, wife of an official of the Bank of New Zealand living at Suva, who arrived with her husband by the steamer Wimmera, intending to make a-tour of the East. On tho ground that she is a prohibited immigrant, tho lady, who is a daughter of the late Mr. Meredith, was ordered to remain on the steamer pending instructions.

Meanwhile Mr. Dowell visited the Customs office, and after a great deal of trouble and cross-questioning, obtained a certificate of exemption on the strength of his assurance that his wife mil leave Australia before the end of the ponth. Mr. Dowell complains of the gross indignity to which ho and his wife have been subjected.

The "Herald" in a leading article commenting on the matter says: "It seems as if the Federal Government is determined to give tho Commonwealth the worst possiblo name by the enforcement of its White Australia policy. The way this lady was treated makes one wonder what sort of Nemesis is to overtake us in the future, when Australia will have to reap

the crop of hatred sown from just such send as this."