FIFTY YEARS
THE CHINESE QUESTION The question of the admission ofChinese immigrants into Australia and the endeavours of miners to remove from the goldfields those Chinese already in the country were problems of vital importance 50 years ago. The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of May 14, 1888: '"ln reply to their suggestion that an intercolonial conference should be /held on the Chinese question, the Victorian Government has received favourable replies." "The Chinese refuse to leave tho Croydon goldfields and the miners threaten' to eject them." Special constables have been sworn in to preserve order. Six hundred Chinese on the goldfields have arined themselves in order to resist ejection."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 12
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112FIFTY YEARS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 12
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