A DEAF AND DUMB IMMIGRANT.
TO BE RETURNED TO SYDNEY. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. Tho Customs Department has refused to allow a deaf and dumb man, a native of Sydney, who arrived from Australia by the Moeraki on NewYear’s Day, to remain in New Zealand, a in! Hie Union S.S. Company has arranged to send him Itacii 1 v the Malieno (his evening. He is -i slaughterman by trade, and i* sail’, to be in robust, health. The Customs authorities base their refusal on clause 3 of the Imbecile Passengers Act, which states amongst other tilings that if a deal and dumb passenger is likely in the opinion of the. Collector of Customs to become a charge upon the public the owner of a vessel shall enter into a bond f(*r 5100. The Union Company d >cs rot see its way to give a bond, slid the man will he returned to the la< d of his birth. It is stated that Vo La.l come across to New Zealand 1 o wo'k at rates which would have I rougl.f him in .55 per week, and tint lie had intended to return to Australia ol his own accord at the end cl the sum-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2080, 4 January 1908, Page 1
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