ASIATIC MIGRATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 5

ASIATIC MIGRATION.

VIEW OF R.3.A. CONFERENCE.

“That this association views with alarm the spread of Asiatics throughout our young Dominion and again stresses the urgent necessity of immediately closing tho uvenue of entrance to the country, and, further,tho putting into force of an alims restrictions bill to repatriate tho greater number of those in our midst,” was the text of a remit from the Wellington branch considered at the annual district conierence of the Returned Soldiers’ Assotiation on Saturday afternoon. Speaking in support of tho remit being sent on to the annual Dominion conference at Dunedin in June Mr W. J. Pascoo, the Wellington delogato, said that wherever Asiatics had obtained a foothold in any country their quarters had become an underworld of dirt, filth and crime. In Wellington thoy had it to a certain extent, and, if the avenue of entrance to the country was not closed, it would bo a bid thing for the Dominion, with its population of only one and arquarter millions. Mr H. G. Dickie (Waverley) commented that there were 67,000 Hindoos in Fiji, while in Honolulu there were 11 Japanese and Chinese to every whito person, with the result that the whites had been practically pushed out of business. Mr Pascoo pointed out that, if the number of Asiatics in the Dominion was restricted, unemployment would be relieved. Following further discussion it was decided to forward the remit on.