ANTI-CHINESE MOVEMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 25 July 1907, Page 2

ANTI-CHINESE MOVEMENT.

Per Press Association. - Duncdin, July 24. The Garrison Hall was. filled to-night with an enthusiastic anti-Chinese audience, when Mr W. A. Lloyd, agent of the Anti-Chinese League, gave an address on the matter. . A wire was read from the Premier as follows: "My sympathies are entirely with the cause you support. My views on this question are, I presume, well known, for both in Parliament and out I have consistently advocated the exclusion from the colony of people whose admission might make' for .the deterioration of our race. Unfortunately, the imposition of the poll-tax has not been successful in preventing the influx of Chinese, and it is very necessary, in the best interests of the colony, that further restrictions should be imposed, and it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation to remedy the existing state of things. A high educational test is proposed, and this, with the poll-, tax, it is hoped, in a great measure will act as a deterrent to the Increase in number of Chinese to our country in future." A resolution was unanimously carried endorsing the introduction of legislation restricting the entry of Chinese to the colony. An amendment by Dr. Kirk and the Rev. A. Don, Chinese missionary, 'affirming the principle that in the commercial interests of New Zealand Chinese immigration should _ continue, was negatived very emphatically. A futher resolution was carried unanimously, stating that inter-marriage between Ei* opeans and Asiatics should be prohibited bv law, and it was also resolved that the present unfair advantage enjoyed by Chinese in trade competition with Europeans should lie immediately terminated by making factory legislation apply equally to Chinese and Europeans.