ASIATICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13430, 22 March 1907, Page 5

ASIATICS.

TRANSVAAL AND THE ORDINANCE. Dnlted, Press Association — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. < | i (Received March 22, 9 a.m.) PRETORIA, March 21. Mr Smuts intends '±o submit to the Transvaal Parliament for ' reinstatement the Asiatic ordinance which Lord Elgin (Secretary for the Colonies) disallowed. Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P., inteirvieved, said if, as he felt sure it Mould be, it was re-enacted, Lord Elgin *voiild hardly venture again to disallow it, as 99 put of every 100 whites in South Africa thoroughly approve of it. (An ordinance amending the law as to registration of Asiatics was passed in September last, bat the Royal assent was withheld pending representations of the British Indians in the Transvaal, who alleged that it subjected them to worse disabilities than had been the case under the Boer regime.)