The Chinese Labour Question.
Pronouncement by Mr Balfour. (fieceived .Nov. 21, 10.11 ~.,„.) LOXDON, A'ov. 2-1. Jieplying to a petition to terininato tlie experiment of Chinese lnbfmr Mr Jlalfour, in a It-tterj dated the hist., while declaring thut no caso *<«| been shown for the reversal cf the present policy, remarks : ''The whites in the Transvaal n few months &"nce will have adequate machinery, under thuir constitution lor' expressing their views, mid if these are in harmony with the petilioit I shall gladly agree/ to abandon the experiment. |Should .they )„. favoiiralile to exist ng legislation it ought not to 1*) .overruled by Downing Street. There was not a'nv distinction between tlie status of 'the coolie and the status of the Kaffir except as to the greater distance'truwlU.il. nor in principle between the legal sta|l«s of the indentured Asiatic in the 'l'r.msvaal and his condition in other colonies. The indentured labour coolie or native cpivstion must be treat'ed as a whole.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7987, 25 November 1905, Page 2
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158The Chinese Labour Question. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7987, 25 November 1905, Page 2
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