UNWANTED ASIATICS.
•‘WILL HAA'E TO GET THEM OUT ALTOGETHER.” (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 14. “That the Government be urged to pass legislation that all Asiatics he debarred from coming into New Zealand for ten years, and that all Canterbury members' of Parliament be asked for their support” A smile went round when the foregoing remit was read at the fruitgrowers’ provincial conference. ' “The Government lias already excluded them for .one year. AVliy not increase it to ten?” said Mr. E. Freeman. “It’s only nine years more.” “I wish it was for a hundred and twenty-nine,” said Mr. A. S. Beckett. “The Government will have to get them out altogether Otago people have not taken up the remit because Chinese do not go down there. It is too cold for them. But we know wliat they are doing here, and so do North Island associations. They will probably support us.” The remit was approved.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 June 1926, Page 7
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