What it might have been.
Speaking on " The Asiatic and other I*»figtaeioti Restriction Bill " Mr A. D. Willis;, the well-known member ftr Wanganui, uttered a note of wait ning which should make all thoughtful dpebple think. There must be something very wrong in the Bill if its effect might be that a settler of the stamp of Mr A. D. Willis might get blocked out. This is whafthe said : — " If I had come under some of these laws I think I i should bttve been a prohibited person myself. When I got to New York I found that my funds had run out, and if I had been examined to find out how much I had I should have been in sore straits. It is quite true that later on I put that right ; but had the captain said to me, " How much money have you got? and how do I know that you are not going to be a pauper on the States ?" I Bhoujd have been embarrassed because Itsould not have satisfied him. I consider that the clauses in this Bill in a great many instances are too strong.
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Manawatu Herald, 26 October 1895, Page 3
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191What it might have been. Manawatu Herald, 26 October 1895, Page 3
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