ASIATICS IN TRANSVAAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13726, 15 August 1908, Page 5

ASIATICS IN TRANSVAAL.

REGISTRATION TROUBLE REVIVED.

!*«• Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received August 15, 8.10 a.m.) PRETORIA, Augnst 14. Indians on the Rand are protesting against the new -.Bill regarding the legalisation of the status of Asiatics as a breach of the compromise arrived at in January last.

[The Transvaal Government proposes to legalise the status of "Asiatics who voluntarily registered before May 10 or obtained certificates of registration under the Asiatics Act of 1907. It is; now proposed to restrict trading .licenses to Asiatics thus qualified.]