New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 51

Page 1676

✨ Immigration Order and Declaration



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

person (whether in Samoa or elsewhere) to commit, an offence against
this Order shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for six
months or to a fine of one hundred pounds.

  1. When any Chinaman, Samoan, or Asiatic has (whether
    before or after the commencement of this Order) arrived in Samoa
    as an indentured agricultural labourer, or otherwise in pursuance
    of any contract to serve as an agricultural labourer for any period,
    or in pursuance of any scheme established by public authority for
    the importation of such agricultural labourers and their service for
    terms of years, it shall be lawful for the Administrator, at any time
    after the expiry or other determination of any such contract of
    service (whether before or after the commencement of this Order), to
    make such provisions as he thinks requisite for the compulsory de-
    portation of that Chinaman, Samoan, or Asiatic, and his repatriation
    to the country from which he came to Samoa.

SCHEDULE.

SAMOA IMMIGRATION ORDER, 1920.

DECLARATION TO BE MADE BY PERSONS ARRIVING IN SAMOA.

  1. What is your name?

  2. What is your occupation?

  3. What is your usual place of residence?

  4. Are you a permanent resident in Western Samoa returning thereto after not
    more than twelve months’ absence?

    (N.B.—If the last preceding question is answered in the affirmative,
    the following questions need not be answered.)

  5. In what country were you born?

  6. What is your age?

  7. What are the names of your parents? Father: Mother:

  8. In what country were your parents born? Father: Mother:

  9. Are you a British subject?
    If so, are you—
    (a.) A natural-born British subject?
    or
    (b.) A naturalized British subject?

  10. If you are a naturalized British subject—
    (a.) When and where were you naturalized?
    (b.) What was your former nationality?

  11. If you are not a British subject, what is your nationality?

  12. Do you intend to become permanently resident in Western Samoa?

  13. If not, what is the date of your intended departure from Western Samoa?

  14. What is your purpose in coming to Western Samoa?

  15. What are your means of support?

I do solemnly declare that the above answers made by me to the above questions
are true.

[Signature.]

Declared at , this day of , 19 , before me—

Officer of Customs,
or
Officer of Police.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council



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🌏 Samoa Immigration Order, 1920 (continued from previous page)

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
1 April 1920
Immigration, Samoa, Legislation, Order in Council, Restrictions, Licensing, Health, Public Order
  • F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council