"NOTHING ABNORMAL"
Aliens Entering Australia PRIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT (Received 19, 8.45 a.m.) BRISBANE, Aug. 19. The Commonwealth Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, Avho is visiting Queensland, commenced to-day on the complaint launched on the influx of aliens into Australia. Mr Lyons sai£ he was quite prepared to have an inquiry into the physique and mentality of the naigrants coming by the liner Otranto. He added that there "was notliing abnormal about the number of foreign migrants entering the Commonwealth. About 80 per cent of the newcomers, he understood,. were dependent relatives of persons already resident in the Commonwealth. According to a message from Canberra, it is officially stated that the excess of permanent arrivais over departures, principally Southern Europeans, in 1935-36 numbered 3583.
Tourist-class passengers aboard the Orient liner Otranto, which arrived at Fremantle on Monday from London, held a meeting during the voyage and decided to forward a petition to the Commonwealth Government protesting against the large influx into Australia.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 5
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