PRESSING PROBLEMS.
AUCKLAND R.S.A. REMITS. INFLUX OF HINDOOS AND CHINESE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. The Auckland branch of the Returned Soldiers ’ Association carried a number of remits to-night for submission to the annual conference. The most, interesting of these was one urging that the attention of the Government be drawn to the large influx of Hindoos and Chinese, and that it be requested to introduce legislation during the session to restrict such immigration, and that all associations throughout New Zealand be requested to convene public meetings in their districts prior to the meeting of Parliament to .protest against the unrestricted influx of Hindoos and Chinese. Other remits advocated increased allowances to subsidise/! workers to bring their wages to at least £3 10s for single men and £1 for married men and increased pensions. Another remit expressed indignation, and alarm at the. temporary stoppage of the Dicharged Soldiers' Settlement Act.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19200526.2.29
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14127, 26 May 1920, Page 5
Word Count
150PRESSING PROBLEMS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14127, 26 May 1920, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.