IMMIGRATION.
AUSTRALIA AND THE CHINESE. A FIRM BUT TEMPERATE POLICY. (l>l TELEOUAI'ft—rUESS AS.SIK'IATKIN— rol'VlllOllT.,' Melbourne, March 5. The Hon. G. F. Pearco, Federal Minister for Defence, speaking at a banquet, »aid there wero many matters whereon agree-mAnt was required by Australia in regard to a common mothod of working with other nations. Considerable energy had been displayed in preventing the smuggling in of Chinese, but ho altogether deprecated an anti-Chinoso feeling which would work nothing but injury to themselves. "Australia," ho said, "is too proud and too big a nation for such prejudices. Tho present Government is strongly adverso to any differential treatment of any portion of tho citizens of Australia. Yet, though st is intended to prevent as far as possible antiChinese- feeling, tho Government is determined that tho immigration and quarantine laws shall not be set at naught."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 5
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