AUSTRALIA AND CHINESE.
Per Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received March 5, 10.5 a.ra. Melbourne, March 5.
The Minister for Defence, speaking at a banquet, said there were many matters where an agreement was required hy Australia upon a common method cf working fwitb other nations. Considerable energy hadjreen displayed in preventing the smuggling in of Chinese, but he altogether deprecated anti-Chinese feeling which would work nothing but injury to themselves. Australia was too proud and too big a nation for snob prejudices. The present Government were strongly adverse to any differential treatment of any portion of the citizens of Australia. Though they intended to prevent *as far as possible an anti-Ohinese-feeling, Government were determined that the immigration and quarantine aws should not he set at nought.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9387, 5 March 1909, Page 5
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126AUSTRALIA AND CHINESE. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9387, 5 March 1909, Page 5
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