POLL-TAX ON CHINESE.
At the Trades and Labour Corifex--ence, at Dunedin, on Tuesday* MrH. W. Brookes (Auckland) moved, "That the conference reaffirms the resolution passed at the last conference in favour of an increase of the poll-tax on Chinamen to £1,000." Mr T. O'Byrne (Southland) seconded the motion. Mr Hahipton (Wellington) moved an amendment, "That the Government be urged to prohibit the immigration of Chinese and other Asiatics, and this conference declares in favour of a white New Zealand." The matter of a £I,OOO poll-tax, said Mr Hampton, was nothing to Chinese magnates who imported th?se Chinese coolies into New Zealand. They wanted a clean colony and a clean / race. Mr J. Jackson (Westland) seconded the amendment. The Chinese, he said, had been a curse to the goldfields. They had found the Premier in favour of a white colony. 'Let them take him in a good mood, and. get him to father legislation to keepall these undesirables out of the colony. Mr W. Peake (Auckland) suggested that it might be wise td qualify the request for the exclusion of the Chinese, to allow for except tional cases. • The amendment was carried by a. large majority.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 4 April 1907, Page 5
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195POLL-TAX ON CHINESE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 4 April 1907, Page 5
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