AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH
COLOURED LABOUR, PROBLEM. BRISBANE, February 27. In the course of his speech at Too- 1 vveomba, Mr Barton said that the policy o£ tho Federal .Government would be to terminate the importation of Kanakas at tlio end of a. term of years. The lust time the Queensland Government derdt with the matter the importation was fixed to continue for ten years That term expired nest year. He advocated the gradual’abolition of the importation by the end of another ten years. SPEECH BY MR BARTON: ‘ (Received February 28, 1 a.m.) BRISBANE. February 27. Tiie Hon E. Barton'. The Federal '-Prc. - mier; addiessed a large meeting at Ipswich.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4293, 28 February 1901, Page 5
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