THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1909. CANADA'S IMMIGRANTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9528, 28 June 1909, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1909. CANADA'S IMMIGRANTS.

Canada is evidently determined that, so far as the law and effective administration can prevent it, no "undesirable" persons shall be permitted to settle in the country. The Government Bill now before Parliament gives statutory sanction to various restrictive regulations already in force, and confers on the authorities still more stringent powers for dealing with objectionable immigrants. At present newcomers who become, or are likely to become, a charge.on the rates, or who otherwise prove undesirable citizens, may be deported at any time within two years of their arrival in the country. The limit is now to be extended to three years, and any period spent in prison or a lunatic asylum is not to count. Last year an Order-in-Council was passed to prevent assisted immigration. This provision is incoporated in the Bill, which places among the prohibited class "immigrants whose passage has been paid wholly or in part by any charitable organisation or out of public money." The only exemption allowed is in individual cases where a permit is first obtained from the Immigration Commissioner. Would-be settlers will be allowed to , enter the Dominion owly if they travel direct from the country of origin, and the requirement as to the possession of a certain amount of money is strengthened. In order to meet the case of Asiatics, power is taken to vary the sum, according to the "race" of the newcomer. Several of the provisions are modelled on the American laws. At all ports of entry there will be a permanent board of inquiry,invested with powers of deportation, and the regulations enforced by the United States on the international boundary will be adopted on the Canadian side. It is also proposed that the steamship company shall pay the cost of hospital treatment for a detained immigrant, where the medical inspector is of opinion that the company failed to exercise proper vigilance. Special restrictions are provided against anarchists or suspected members of the "Black Hand," Mafia, and kindred organisations. Finally, power is taken to deal with misrepresentation and fraud by immigrant employment agencies, whose operations have hitherto been largely beyond the reach of the law. '