H.W.M Leo, wife and child; P.T Laurence (St Helena): deeming of under section 4/(1) (A) Act 22/1913

Abstract

BNS 885 A1082 1 folder, 27 pages. Pages are out of order. Manuscript notes and documents. Some pages are hard to read. Letters exchanged between the Secretary for External Affairs, the Secretary for Justice and the Chief Clerk, Government Administration, Jamestown, St. Helena in connection with securing a number of documents with regard to an accusation of bigamy made against Mr. Edward Charles Stevens. Dated May-September 1929. Telegram and manuscript notes on the subject of petitions made by Herbert William Leo and his wife, Elsie Elizabeth Leo and Percival Lawrence from St. Helena to live and work in the Union of South Africa. States that entry is to be refused based on Minster’s policy not to allow coloured people into the Union. Copies of abovementioned Petitions. Copy of Proceedings before the Appeals Board to review the cases of Percival T. Lawrence, Herbert William Leo, Elsie Elizabeth Leo and Iva Olga Leo. Expresses views of Chairman to Council, Counsel for the Appellants and Counsel for the Department, 4.10.1917. Minute from the Principal Immigration Officer, Cape Town, re. the questions of law arising out of appeals to the Immigration Appeals Board in connection with the case of P.T. Lawrence and H.W. Leo. With other correspondence regarding. Telegram from Jagger to the Minister for the Interior, urging the latter to grant Leo and Lawrence access to the Union, 5.10.17. Telegram from Graham to Interior reporting that Lawrence is a respectable tradesman and that prohibition should be removed, 5.10.17.