ANTI-CHINESE MEETING.
«. !BT TSLFGnAPH.I fUHITID PKICSS ASSOCIATION. I Chbistchdrch, 2-lth April The anti-Chinese demonstration at the Theatre Royal to-night was orowded. The Mayor presided, and among ths speaker* were the Hon. W. P. Beeves and MesFrs. G. J. Smith, W. W. Collins, and G. W. Bussell, Itf.H.B.'s. Resolutions were carried that legislation was imperatively necessary to prevent the influx of Chineße into the colony, and thut the poll tax shonld be raised to .£lOO. Th» Eev. J. OB. Hoare (who met with a very unfavourable reception), with Mr Gourlay, proposed an amendment that the present time was inopportune, for which only two or three hands were held up. Eaoh speaker referred to the foot that the fruit trade in Wellington was almost entirely ia the hands of Chinese. An Anti-Chinese League was formed.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 97, 25 April 1895, Page 4
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133ANTI-CHINESE MEETING. Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 97, 25 April 1895, Page 4
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