FEDERAL FOLLY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1389, 25 February 1905, Page 3

FEDERAL FOLLY.

K By Telegraph—Prase Association—Copyright !-• \ \ ■' Sydney, Fob 24. -he .Customs authorities state that two K Jflfipr?kboarora have been returned by the 1 b* \Varrimoo to New Zealand. They • wsrs iliskod to write 50 words in English, J ' lbs oiftaal teat, but failed. .I® (Per Press Association.) " , - last night. VpStef qMflca to the refusal of the i'*' authorities to allow two Maorishearer# to land, one of the rhon in ' question waited, on the Evening Post and stated that ho had not been tested by the Australian authorities, and he demon- I stratod to the Post staff his ability to | write. I

[ONE NATIVE INTERVIEWED. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night. Interviewed by the Poet, To Faipa, odo of ihe native shearers who wore ref used permission to land from the Warrimoo iu Sydney, said ho and his mate went to the Union Company's office in Wellington and ' 'asked for two ; second olass tiokots to Sydney. They ,’woro told that tho Com- - psny wonld not/allow natives to tako single tiokefs. tako return tickets. “I asked bfttn what the reason for that was,” said Rsthara, “ and ho said, ‘ It’s no use asking nfie tho roason. The on!y thing ■will have to take a return j ed him how long a return I a good for and he said * sis i I said • all right,’ and wo .” Rohara went on to say, me hero in reading and h, and I passed. They did ate;” > steamer arrived at 1 a.m. the two Maoris were i the lower deok. “ The t eams and asked ns ‘ where ~-j': do you go to?’ I said ‘to Rockhampton.’ VHe a£ dd * what for?’ I said ‘ for shearing.' 5 Essaid ‘you will have to go baok to Now !• Zealand.’ He never tested ns in reading i or writing. Ha never said anything to my C mate. He said to me, • the Union Corns' pany should not have given yon a ticket , because they know all about-it.’ I said, || 'all about what?’ but he would not answer.” The two men wore kept looked.up until Igthe ship left at 1 p.m. for Newcastle. ' They were looked up again all the time the .boat was at Newcastle, and again at until she had east off from the .’irflarf. On her return voyage “ when I they would not allow us to land," said • Behara, “ I turned my mind baok to the . white people in New Zealand, and I thought of how the white people there had ]■’ alwayf) treated us the Bamo as the pakeha. f We are British snbjeots and I think wo are just as good as anyone ovhr here, and }■ yet we aro not allowed to land.” y. 1