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Dictation test passage

Date Published

:  Document (Government WAP)
:  White Australia policy (WAP),  legal restictions,  Certificate Exempting Dictation Test (CEDT),  White Australia policy (Dictation Test)
:  Sydney
:  Sydney
:  1936

Dictation test passage - NAA: SP42/1, C1937/5632 PART 1 OF 2

Image Courtesy of: National Archives Australia

Test passage read to Honn Sin and his attempt to write it out. His failure legally made him a prohibited immigrant and thus liable to deportation. Had he been able to write out this passage the etst would have been stopped and a passage in another language subsittuted.

Test attempt - NAA: SP42/1, C1937/5632 PART 1 OF 2

Image Courtesy of: National Archives Australia