IMMIGRATION OF ASIATICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1926, Page 8

IMMIGRATION OF ASIATICS.

AN EFFECTIVE CONTROL. DECLIXE TX FIGURES. i '"So far as I am aware no other country has a more effective means of | controlling Asiatic immigration than New Zealand has."' states the Prime Minister (P»t. Hon. J. G. Coates; in a communication he has addressed to Mr. | G. \Y. Forbes (leader of the National partyl. with reference to a protest from the Rangiora Fruitgrowers" Association a? to the number of Asiatics coming into the Dominion. ; Mr. Coates points out that the pre- ; sent legislation srives the Government [ample y»ower to impose effective restriction on the number of aliens or ra;-? I aliens i including Asiatics > entering ' New Zealand for peimanerit residence. A ! table taken from the "Annual Report lon Immigration," showing the trend of ' Asiatic immigration, and the effect of i the legislation which ifcame operative lon April 1. jf'2]. is appended to the i reply, and indicates the downward ten- [ dency cf the firrure?. uhi.-h arc as ■ under: — Indian?. I hi nose. : I:-]". ]:J 2W IHI7 ■ !i- 272 ; l>.»]S ]:w -J.:,-,; ]!il!i 1 f>:> 41s : lieu 2i". 3477 j Hi-21 137 2.3.', 1 Ui-22 x ]<>2 H>2:! :;2 ]ih] ; ]!124 44 IK! i l!-2o :;:' is '. The figures for 1923 are only preliminary. The Prime Minister states that :so far as Chinese are concerned the I Government are not issuing any permits fui permanent residence to persons ol this nationality during the present year.

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

1 - SIV/I '■ TEAM'S TOUZt i i •!:■:. MAIR ON GAME AND ] PROSPECTS The efiect of the ne-.v rules iwhich art ; being tried oui in New .">outb Wale:- ami Queensland 1 cm the League game over there swm> to have appealed stntngly j to Mr. E. H. Muir. manager of the New j Zealand League team for Britain. Mr.; Mair returned by the Maunsranui vester- i j d?y from a business trip to Queen?-j lanj. ha\ing been detained longer than ; txpeoted through need of an operation to a A scratch rec-eivej in training ] work just before his trip turned septic- j and demanded immediate attention. ! ''I'm sorry to have missed the southern I trial matches" said Mr. Mair to a "■."Star"' I reporter this morning "but 1 have fujl j confidence in the 'judgment of my J selectors," \ j Chatting a'l'iut t:ic game in Australia. I he remarked that the ney'"play-the-ball" and ■■ki:k-ont-froiii-the-linc" rule? had j been a wonderful success. They had i -| made the fullback more skilful and; resourreful. and the game was eorres- j poodingly more spectacular, re-acting ir. i this way to phenomenally increase the gates at t.i t > matches. N.S.YV. football j was rapidly on the way to regain its j position, and the youngsters were comins ! on as ne\ er before. (Queensland was no: i quite up to the standard of la>t year. I and they nere missinjr the brains of ' Duncan Thompson, who wa- an import- I I ant factor in raiding the Queensland! j standard. 1 I "New Zealand." said Mr. Mair. ''can- i not play the new rules adopted in Aus- ! tralia but as soon as I get to England 1 | intend trying to get the English Council | to recommend them. 1 am positive they j will improve the frame from the spec-Tac-u-I lar point of view."' j I About the selection of the Auckland • J team for training, he realised, he said. I that" a selector's task was always thank- . ! less, and that everybody could not be pleased. Whether those chosen were, or were not, the best, tiiere were two things , the selectors were to be commended for. They had remembered that unorthodox ■ football required a certain type of . player, and they had blended youth with experience. In his opinion, New Zealand . football had improved 30 per cent on last season, and he was more confident now . than ever that the team finally selected ; would win the great majority of their matches, and that they would win the rubber. ""How about a slogan V he was asked. > with a reminder that last year iiis slogan against the Queenslanders was "We"U whack ! em." "Yes. I've thought about that, too." ) replied Mr. "We are going to ; attend to that, and I fancy our slogan , for the hour will be "Up. Blacks and'at > 'em." s Talking of training proposals. Mr. . Mair recalled that last year the New ■ Zealanders were beaten 7—2. or t'nerej about, in their first game against N.S.W., -, J when, on the play, they were a 30-points . 'better side, but' lost' chances by misI handling and kicking. That was due t I entirely to their first experience of tlusmall, oval Wallaby hall- The ball has been introduced here and had 'instant s popularity. But the lesson of last year * had to be remembered. In England " they will have to do their kicking and , handling with the old-style ball, and in training they would have to prepare for ; that eventuality.