PLEA FOR EXPULSION
0,080 ASIATICS IN NEW ZEALAND KEEPING 12.080 MEN WORKLESS [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, September 23. The immediate repatriation of all Asiatics, particularly Chinese and Indians, in order that they may be replaced in their occupations by approximately 12,000 unemployed New Zealand workless, men and boys, is advocated in a petition presented to Parliament to-day by Mr Massey (Franklin) on behalf of 1,457 petitioners. , , It is stated that there are about 6,000 Chinese and Indians in the dominion, and it is estimated that they send or take an average of £IOO each annually out of the country, which means that £600,000 a year is completely lost to New Zealand, instead of remaining here in circulation, as would be the case if they frere replaced by our own people. The Asiatics of New Zealand are undesirables, declared the petitioners, being invariably of low caste and class in their own country, and as such cannot be assimilated into our population, and are therefore of no economic value to the country.
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Evening Star, Issue 21216, 24 September 1932, Page 9
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171PLEA FOR EXPULSION Evening Star, Issue 21216, 24 September 1932, Page 9
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