POLITICAL NOTES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1932, Page 6

POLITICAL NOTES

SUBJECTS BEFORE PARLIAMENT. (Special to “Guardian.”) 5 (WELLINGTON, September 23. Repatriation of Asiitasc. Thej immediate repatriation of all Asiatics, particularly Chinese and Indians, is sought in a. petition bearing 1457 signatures which was presented to the House by Mr J. N. Massey (0., Franklin). ... The Chief reason advanced by the. petitioners is “in order that Asiatics may be replaced in their occupations by approxmately 10.000 to 12.000 of our own men and boys who are at present unable to earn a living” The petitioners estimate that there aro about'Booo Chinese and Indians mostly, engaged in market gardening, resident in the Dominion.

j TOBACCONISTS’ PETITION The 1 removal of tobaccos, cigarettes aiid; c|gars from the operations of the Commercial Trusts Act is sought in several petitions presented to ParliaTiieiit to-day on behalf of tobacconists in various parts of the Dominion. The, petitioners referred to “the deplorable state of our trade in view of the grievous'disabilities we are suffering under following the inclusion of tobacco in the Act,” and it was held that the wording of the legislation shows that such inclusion was foreign to the purposes of the Ac;t.