ASIATICS PROTEST

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 424, 4 May 1937, Page 7

ASIATICS PROTEST

Thumb-Print Identification Press Association—Copyright. • Auckland, May 3. As a protest against the recommendation made by the Fruit Mark ting Commit ee that legislation be enacted providing for the identification of all Asiatics by means of humb-prnt records, the Auckland branch of the N. w Zealand, Indian Association pasted the following resolution, which was telegraphed 16 the acting-Prime Minister, Hon. P. Fraser:— “This meeting views wftli grave cone rn the thumb-print recommendation mrde-by >he fruit and vegetable committee for all Asiatics engaged in the fruit and vegetable trade. It put into operation this unjust recommendation will be most humiliating to our nationals, and we have riot the slightest doubt that the fair-minded legislators of this wonderful Dominion will not. pay any serious attention to this un-British sugg stion. “Furthermore, in our opinion, it will be a most unfair act toward one of His Majesty’s subjects legally domiciled in this country. We would appreciate an official statement from you regarding this matter in duecourse, which we sincerely trust will be on British fairpfcy lines ”