CANADA'S HINDUS
ROYAL COMMISSION REQUESTED. WITH OVERSEA REPRESENTATIVES (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) OTTAWA, July 6. Received July 7, 5.10 p.m. The dominion Government is requesting Britain to appoint a Royal Commission. including Australasian and South African representatives, to inquire into (ho question of Indian immigration to the oversea dominions. THE KOMAGATA MAKU CONSIGNMENT. COURT OF APPEAL’S DECISION. NOT ALLOWED TO LAND. VANCOUVER, July 6. The. Court of Appeal in British Columbia unanimously decided against the Hindus aboard the Komagata Maru being allowed to land. The Court hold that Ihe Ordcr-in-Council prohibiting the admission of Asiatics was good and has full effect. The Hindus did not possess th© necessary amount of money to permit them to land in Canada, and had not made a direct journey to the country. Tho majority were unskilled labourers and therefore temporarily barred under any circumstances.
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Southland Times, Issue 17697, 8 July 1914, Page 5
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