CHINESE LABOUR ON THE RAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 35, 10 February 1904, Page 2

CHINESE LABOUR ON THE RAND.

HOIS". C. C. KINGSTON'S OPINION. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PAHIATUA, this day. The following is a copy of a telegram which the Premier has received from the Right Hon. C. C. Kingston on the Chinese question:—"! was delighted to read your fearless, forceful and patriotic denunciation of the suggested Transvaal Chinese slavery iniquity, aad to notice the warmth and unanimity with which you were supported by the meeting. I am glad to think that the Commonwealth and New Zealand are cooperating to prevent this iniquity as they co-operated in the war ardently undertaken in the interests of fair piav to white Outlanders Is it consistent, with this fair play that Cheap coloured labonr should be imported and on specially servile conditions to wrest from the white worker his employment and means of existence, or to make him submit under Imperial sway to lower wages and more degraded conditions than under Boer rule? Have Australian and New Zealand blood and treasure been spent with this view? It was freely given and gladly accepted; surely these facts cannot yet be forgotten, and they speak eloquently in support of the "right of yourself and Mr Deakin to speak as you are speaking in protest against the practical expulsion of New Zealanders and Australians and the white workers in favour of this introduction of Chinese. I feel so strongly on the subject that I cannot do less than presume on our old friendship to send you these few lines. —C. C. Kingston. Rotorua."