THE CHINESE.
Tiru agitation for tho restriction of Chinese immigration still continues, and there are few who will deny that legislation in that direction is more urgently required than in the case of the Australian blacklegs,, above referred to. The Greymouth Borough Council have " gone one better" than tho other bodies which have dealt with the question, and are urging that provision be made in the Local Government Bill to enable boroughs to cope with the Chinese difficulty. Thff- power asked for by the (jreymouth Council is— (I) to confine the Chinese to a separate district ; (2) to issue licenses to opium dens and stores where opium is sold, with a heavy penalty for breach of the conditions; (3) to limit the number of persons who may legally occupy the same tenement, with the exception of Chinese families, and to make it an offence on the part of any Chinese householder if he harbours or encourages to enter any European of immature age, the finding of any infant on the premises being prima facie evidence of harbouring.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXX, Issue 5735, 4 June 1896, Page 2
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177THE CHINESE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXX, Issue 5735, 4 June 1896, Page 2
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