ANTI-INDIAN LEGISLATION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 August 1910, Page 3

ANTI-INDIAN LEGISLATION.

IN THE TRANSVAAL

SOME OF THE DISABILITIES.

[BY KtECTIUO TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT,

[I'KR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (■Received Tin's Day, 8.45 a.m.) CALCUTTA', August 28. Six thousand five hundred •pound* have been subscribed in India foi the benefit of Indians in the Trans vaal who are suffering from anh li'dinr legislation.

(Chronicle Note: The Indian magazine, - are full of protests agau-sO the vaj in which our Indian fellow subjects are being treated in the Transvaal. There are some 150,000 Indians in South Africa to-day, and many of these have suffered iiry.-u----soi ment rather than submit to the legislation of tho different Mrican Governments. It is ?!«iinv.:d that the Immigrants Restriction Act deprives tho resident .Indians in Natal'of the possibilities of Vernacular teaching, while in the Transv.nl in 1907 an Act was passed completely excluding Indian immigration. Ir'dian professional men and University graduates, priests and Indian mombers of the Viceroy's executive council are excluded from the Transvaal, and half the Indian population have been driven from the colony. In 1908 there were many exciting scenes if Johannesburg, where there is a big Indian population. At the elections wliiohi took place a few weeks ago a prominent tradesman associated with the Methodist chuirch, who has , consistently espoused the cause of the Indians, was heavily defeated, and his defeat is attributed entirely to his Pro-Indian proclivities. The wliito population maintain that the Indian coolie under-sells the Boer and Britisher.)