CHINESE IN AUSTRALIA
I MELBOURNE, February 8. Federal members who recently arrived from Brisbane state that there is a strong feeling in Northern Queensland that the Chinese are entering Australia at some ' point on the coast without complying ' with the Immigration Act. Mr Ransford, a Melbourne barrister, says that some time ago when en route to the Solomon Islands he met Mr Brotherton, formerly a well-known resident of Melbourne. The latter informed him that about 15 months ago he took a trip across the Cape York Peninsula to Princess Charlotte Bay. He believed a white man had never before travelled in that portion of the country. He found the banks of a river peopled with thousands of Chinese, who were growing sufficient opium to supply, not j only Australia, but probably the whole !of China. He thought they came from Java in Malay proas, and their produce ' was no doubt distributed by Chinese agents at Cairns. — — ■■ ■* —^^™ — mm "~— "^ i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2761, 13 February 1907, Page 26
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158CHINESE IN AUSTRALIA Otago Witness, Issue 2761, 13 February 1907, Page 26
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