THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.
THE COLOURED LABOUR QUESTION,
MELBOURNE, May 30. The debate on the Address-in-Reply was continued to-day. *'
In the House Mr Paterson, Queensland.sai d he was anxious for the grad. ual abolition of coloured labour, but it would be un-British to annihilate it in. stautiy. He hoped that no action would be taken until a Royal Commission hail inquired into the subject.
In the Senate. Mr Dawson, Queensland, said the presence of Kanakas in Queensland was not a pressing trouble He did not want to ruin the suger in! dustry by sweeping away its mainstay without, timely warning. They should first stop the influx of aliens and then oust, tho3e already in the States.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 128, 31 May 1901, Page 4
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