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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2574, 7 August 1909, Page 5

After a detention of forty-two days on the steamship Waipori, James Connor, fireman, was permitted to land in New Zealand on July 3, but' not before the Seamen’s Union officials hatl interviewed the Minister of Customs, Minister of Health, Secretary of Custbms, and other heads of departments, and as a result Connor is now at Lyttelton, where he will be able to procure necessary medical attention. This case has forcibly brought home to the Seamen’s Union the danger surrounding every man, from the skipper to the boy, on every New Zealand-owned intercolonial trader, seeing that under the provisions of tho Immigration Restriction Act ho is barred from landing in New Zealand if he incurs a contagious disease while in such ship, it is within the bounds of possibility that such man might he with lis family resident in tho Dominion, met the ass of a law says to him : “You are a restricted person, and must get cut of the country without delay, lou may take your family with you if you choose, but don’t you dare to shove your nose over the gangway. ‘lie union has the matter in hand, and as soon as the Parliamentary doormat is once again in position will immediately ask for an amendment to the Act, so as to safeguard the crew of each Now Zealand-owned intercolonial vessel.— Exchange.