CANADIAN IMMIGRATION.
INDIANS LEAVE FIJI FOR CANADA. DOMINION REFUSES THEM ADMISSION. Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 31. .Fiji files to hand to-day state that during the last four months quite a number of Indians have left Fiji in the mail steamers for Canada. The voyage cost them £32, this including a deposit required by the Canadian Government prior to tlieir admission to the Dominion. Now, however, a law Ins been passed prohibiting their landing there, and it has been made retrospective. Three Indians left Suva in tlie R.M.S. Aorangi in January last, but tlie law hail been passed prior to their arrival, so they had to return in the steamer, .paying their passages both ways. The other men who landed 'previously will also have to return at their own expense.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2154, 1 April 1908, Page 1
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