COLOUR PROBLEM.
TRANSVAAL AND AUSTRALIAN ISSUES' INDIANS' GRIEVANCE. • BRITISH MINISTER'S OPINION. (bt telegraph—rßEss association—cornuani.l 1 London, October 29. The (Under-Secretary of. State for the Colonies, Colonel Seely, speaking at the Liberal Colonial Club, said he anticipated an early settlement of the Indian difficulty in the Transvaal. Natal's problem was harder, but it might be solved by excluding further immigrants, and treating generously those already there.. ;
Australia, said Colonel Seely, was a white man's country, and Australian opinion clung so earnestly to the ideal of a "White Australia" that it had declared the country's determination to make the experiment of peopling even the tropical territory with whites. The success or otherwise of such an experiment was a.question of population; Australia's future depended on the possibility of increased white immigration and a higher white birth-rate;
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 342, 31 October 1908, Page 5
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133COLOUR PROBLEM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 342, 31 October 1908, Page 5
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