“To my mind Japan is a glorious country—the best in the world,” stated the Assistant Bishop-Designate of Melanesia (the Rev. J. H. Dickinson) speaking at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, the other afternoon. Mr Dickinson said the Japanese were not a colonising nation, nor an aggressive race, and he considered the laws restricting their immigration in the United States were quite unnecessary. The Japanese had. been given an opportunity to colonise in Brazil, but preferred to remain in their own country.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 52
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