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Show BRITISH PROTEST TAX ON HONOLULU VISITORS HONOLULU, T H.Aug 17. (Cor- h respondenco.) A number of British 1 eubjec:. including ihe mayor of a ' Now Zealand city and a major in I the Britisb army, whose passports had not been vised by American con- 1 suls. were refused permission to land and sfrend Ihe day iu Honolulu re- ! centl) while the steamei Tahiti was loading and unloading on her way from Sydney. Australia ,t0 Vancouver B. C. The Britishers were detained aboard the Tahiti at the order of R L. Halsey Immigration inspector hero, j Halsey said he had his instructions from Secretary of State olb, adding that ho had received a cablegram to 1 enforce the regulations strictly with regard to the Tahiti. For visaing a passport the Amer ican consuls in Australasia charge a fee oi Jl". said Tahiti passengers who had conformed with ih demand of the United Stales government. Officials of the chamber of com- merce took up the matter with the immigration officials here, but could obtain no relaxing of the rule, and an appeal has been seni to Washington to suspend the regulation which 'charges a through paMnger of for elgn blith 10 for tho privilege of seeing Honolulu -n n |