{"id":2282,"date":"2021-08-30T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T23:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/?page_id=2282"},"modified":"2021-08-30T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T23:45:32","slug":"alien-registration-shop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/alien-registration-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien registration shop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This shop front in Ashfield\u2019s Summer Hill once featured in a major court case in the 1950s. This was because at the height of the White Australia policy when people of Chinese origin could not become citizens a back room in this shop turned out forged Alien Registration Cards for some xx funds each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One interesting aspect of this case is that the barrister needed to explain to the jury (all white) just why people would be prepared to pay such a high amount for this identification. Despite the Dictation Test having existed for more than 50 years by that stage. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/1-certificate-exempting-from-dictation-test\/\">No. 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/?page_id=897\">No. 40<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/barristers-sum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2283\" width=\"744\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/barristers-sum.jpg 906w, https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/barristers-sum-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/barristers-sum-768x245.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shop front in Ashfield\u2019s Summer Hill once featured in a major court case in the 1950s. This was because at the height of the White Australia policy when people of Chinese origin could not become citizens a back room in this shop turned out forged Alien Registration Cards for some xx funds each. One &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/alien-registration-shop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alien registration shop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2282","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2282\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}