OUR ALIENS.
PROPOSED QUARANTINE STATION AT TILBURY. Proposals to create at Tilbury a receiving station for aliens, Which would be in effect a quarantine station like Ellis Island at New York, are contained in a report just issued by a Home Office Committee. The station is required, first, for examining aliens arriving by Thames steamers; and, secondly, for detaining those who are rejected pending the result of appeal to the Immigration Board. The Port Authority is willing to give half oi a shed at Tilbury Basin, to fit it up with rooms, and to undertake the custody and feeding of the aliens.
Accordingly the report recommends that the Port Authority be allowed to impose a toll on each alien landed. Either 6d or Is is suggested. The report hints that all ships carrying one" alien or. more might be inspected, thus abolishing the present license to ships carrying fewer than twenty. In 1906 14,942 aliens arrived in the Port of London, and in 1909 only 8226, but of the latter 5248 came in so-called non-emigrant ships.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3220, 17 May 1911, Page 3
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176OUR ALIENS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3220, 17 May 1911, Page 3
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