THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE.
ANTI-CHINESE FEELING
DEPRECATED
[press association.] (Received March 5, 10.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March 5. The Minister for Defence, speaking at a banquet last , night, said that there were many matters on which agreement was required by Australia upon a common method of working with other nations. Considerable energy had been displayed in preventing the smuggling in of Chinese, but he altogether deprecated antiChinese feeling, which would work nothing but injury to ourselves. Australia vyas too proud and too big a nation for such prejudices. The present Government were strongly averse to any differential treatment of any portion of the citizens of Australia. Though they intended to prevent as far as possible, antirChinese feeling, the Government were determined that the immigration and quarantine laws should not be set at nought.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 5 March 1909, Page 5
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131THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 5 March 1909, Page 5
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