ASIATIC IMMIGRANTS.
DECLINE IN THEIR NUMBER. “So far as I am aware no other country has a more effective means of controlling Asiatic immigration than New Zealand has,” stated the Prime Minister (Right Hon. J. G. Coates) in a communication ho has addressed to Mr G. W. Forbes (Leader of the National Party) with reference to a protest from the Itangiora Fruitgrowers’ Association as to the number of Asiatics coming into the Dominion. Mr Coates points out that the present legislation gives the Government ample power to impose effective restriction on the number of aliens or race aliens (including Asiatics) entering New Zealand for permanent residence. A table taken from the Annual Report of Immigration, showing the trend of Asiatic immigration, and the effect of the legislation which became operative on April 1, 1921, is appended to the reply, and indicates the downward tendency of the figures, which are as under:
The figures for 1925 are only preliminary. The Prime Minister states that so far as Chinese are concerned tlio Government is not issuing any permits for permanent residence to persons of this nationality during the present year.
Indians. Chinese 1915 13 265 1916 92 327 1917 92 272 1918 138 256 1919 413 1920 225 1477 1921 137 255 1922 8 162 1923 32 ' 100 1924 44 93 1925 49 58
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 4
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222ASIATIC IMMIGRANTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 4
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