LOYALTY OF IMMIGRANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1920, Page 5

LOYALTY OF IMMIGRANTS.

PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN. (By Wire.—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. It is a commonplace that most of the disloyalty preached in this country comes from people who are not nativebom. Under the immigration scheme there will be many people coming to this country in the next year or two, and many others will come not connected with any scheme. Mr. Isitt asked in the House to-day whether any precautions were being taken to ensure that people coming into t&is country were 'being required to show,any proofs of their loyalty. Mr. Masscgr said that the question was a very important one. He was afraid that it was a question that had been neglected in the past, the reason possibly being that because during the wai* very few people had been*«coming to the country from the United Kingdom or any other country, but in the future this question was not going to be overlooked. There was already sufficient provision in the Statute Book to enable the Government to deal with the matter. It was a very old law—he Was informed that it was over thirty years old—but he might have to ask the House to amend it in such manner as to make it possible for the Government to enforce it at this time. '