REFUSED ADMISSION.
Should a three-quarter-cast Chinese, who has been in New Zealand before, pay the poll-tax? Of course if in possession of the proper pap»rs he would not be asked to pay, but lacking them a Chinese who arrived at Wellington from Sydney by the Maheno 01 Wednesday, and who was unable to pay the poll-tax, is being shipped back to Australia. He was a smart-looking fellow, rather flashly dressed, wearing a gold nugget pin, and a gold dollar pendant en his watch-chain. He belongs to Sydney, he says, and certainly speaks as if he did. When stopped by the authorities he said: "What beats me is why should they block me when I've been here before. It's pretty hot!" This man, whose mother was a half-case, and his father a fullblooded Chinese, passed the education teat easily.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3049, 20 November 1908, Page 4
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138REFUSED ADMISSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3049, 20 November 1908, Page 4
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