Imbecile Passengers' Act.
WELLINGTON, January 3. . The Customs Department has refused to allow a deaf and dumb man, a native of Sydney, who arrived from Australia by the Moeraki on New Year's Day, to remain in New Zealand, and the Union Company has arranged to send him back by the Mahenothis evening. He is a slaughterman by trade, and is said to be in robust health. The Customs authori • ties base their refusal on clause 3 of the Imbecile Passengers' Act, which states, among other things, that if a deaf and dumb passenger is likely, in th'i opinion of the Collector of Customs, to become a charge upon the public, the owner of the vessel shall enter into a bond for £IOO. The Union Company does not see its way to give a bond, and the man will be returned to the land of his birth. It is stated that he had come across to New Zealand to work at rates which would have brought him in £5 per week, and that he had intended to return to Australia of his own ac : cord at the end of the summer.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9019, 4 January 1908, Page 5
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190Imbecile Passengers' Act. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9019, 4 January 1908, Page 5
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