CHINESE LABOUR.
Tftlagraph Pren Association Copyright Lokdon, March 6. The Hon. A. Lyttelton has assured the Hon. H. Copeland that the <3ovßrcment viewed the introduction of Chinese into the Transvaal as an experiment justifiable under abnormal conditions in the labor market, which, he hoped, would.be of temporary duration. It was intended to -engage ten thousand w an initial •experiment. Received Hatch 7, 10 a.m. Mxtaouasz, This Day. Copies of too correspondence bettwteen Mr. Seddon and Mr. Deakin regarding the Chinese in the Transvaal, and the Transvaal and Imperial Governments' replies, have been tabled in the Federal House. It shows that Mr. Seddon wished to send a protest direct to the British •Government, but Mr. Deakin adhered to his opinion that it should be addressed to the Transvaal -authorities and this was done.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXV, Issue 221, 7 March 1904, Page 4
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