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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1685, 15 June 1904, Page 57

The Premier has been advised by cable that the Secretary of State for the Colonies admitted in the House of Commons on Thursday that the-Chinese employed on the Rand mines would work under Chinese gangers. The secretary of the Witwatersrand Trades and Labour Council, Johannesburg, has written to the Premier as follows: —I am instructed by the Witwatersrand Trades and Labour Council to sincerely thank you on behalf of the workers represented by us for the sympathy expressed and the support you have given us in resisting the introduction of Asiatic labour into the Transvaal. lam also directed to inform you that notwithstanding the large amount of misrepresentation that has been given to guar views, the workmen here remain antagonistic to the threatened Chinese invasion. This is borne out by the expressions uttered at our recent Labour Day demonstration. : It is intended by a resident of Wanganui to shortly start trawling operations, which should prove a great boon to Wanganui and the distort by providing fresh fish at .all times. A steamer is now being fitted up for the purpose.