ANTI-CHINESE MOVEMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13484, 25 July 1907, Page 5

ANTI-CHINESE MOVEMENT.

SIR JOSEPH WARD'S SYMPATHY

Per Pre» Association.

DUNEDIN, July 24. The Garrison Hall was filled to-night with an enthusiastic anti-Chinese audience, when Mr.' W. A. Lloyd, agent of the Anti-Chinese League, ' gave an address. • ' ' " < ' ™-

A wire was read from the Premier as follows;-— "My sympathies are entirely with the cause you support. My *news on this question are, I presume, well known, for both in Parliament and out I I have consistently advocated the exclusion from -the colony of people whose admission- might make for the deterioration of bur race, Unfortunately, the imposition of the poll-tax has not been successful in preventing .the- influx of Chinese, and it is very neceßgafy, in the l>est interests of the colony,, that further restrictions should be imposed, and it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation to remedy * the existing state of things. A high educational test is proposed, and this, with{ the jpoUktax, will, it is hoped, in.a great measure, act as. a deterrent to' the in-* crease in number, of Chinese to Ourt country iij future." . , > A resolution was unanimously, carried] endorsing the introduction, of .legislation! restricting the entry\of "WdmS'i^ xhef colony. -. . i An amendment by Dr. Kirk and the : Rev. A. Don, Chinese missionary, affirm* ing the principle that in the commercial interests of New Zealand Chinese immigration should continue, was, negatived; very emphatically.' ' A further resolution Was carried unanimously, stating that- inter-marriage between Europeans and Asiatics should be prohibited by law. It was also resolved that the. present unfair advantage enjoyed by Chinese in trade competition with Europeans should be immediately terminated by making" equally to Chin-