CANADA AND JAPAN.
EDUCATION .TEST. , COURT UPSETS COLUMBIA'S ACT* BY TELEGRAPH: —PKESB ASSOCIATION— COPTEJGHT. ■ : (Rec. Feb. 24, 11.20 p.m.) Victoria, February 24. Chief Justico Hunter, at Victoria; British .Columbia, declared that tho "Natal Act" (imposing an education test on-immigrants— a measure recently adopted by tho Provincial Legislature of, British Columbia) is inoperative as regards Japanese, because it .is against the Anglo-Japanese treaty. An appeal to tho Supremo Court and to tho Privy Council.is,.foreshadowed. The Act in the meanwhile cannot be onforced.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 130, 25 February 1908, Page 7
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