HINDUS AND CHINESE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11927, 21 October 1919, Page 5

HINDUS AND CHINESE.

SOLDIERS FEAR COMPETITION. Per Press Association. Wellington, October 20. A warm discussion took place today at the R. S. A. Conference on the question of competition from Hindus and Chinese with returned soldiers. The conference was dealing with a remit from the repatriation com mittee asking the conference to draw the attention of the Government to the increasing number of Hindus arriving, in New Zealand, in and to request that the Immigration Restriction Act he amended to stop without further delay the immigration of Hindus and Chinese. The conference was asked to declare for a “white New Zealand.” Mr Long (Auckland) submitted that the increase of alien, especially Hindu, immigration during the war constituted a very serious menace to the country. Australia had declared fora ’“white Australia,” and had never gone back on it. Mr Petherick (Christchurch) entered a plea for the Chinese. He pleaded for a policy of live and let live. The British had forced themselves into China at tho cannon’s mouth.

The recommendations were adopted.