RETALIATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8494, 25 July 1907, Page 5

RETALIATION.

CHINESE TALK OF BOYCOTT. (Post Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, July 24. Since Mr W. A. Lloyd held his anti-Chinese meeting in Dunedin, the trend of the movement has not escaped the notice of the Chinese merchants" and hawkers of the city,. and as far as the situation can be ascertained it seems very likely that they may take some trade step by way of retaliation on those who wish to!restrict their business. They have discussed the matter a good deal of late and (says the Star) it is reported on very good authority that they have'talked over the question of refusing to supply greengrocers who may happen to make themselves prominent at Mr Lloyd's meeting at the Garrison Hall this evening. The matter of binding each Chinese vegetable dealer under a bond of £2O each (presumably to some central Chinese committee or society), to carry out the boycott rigidly has also been mentioned, but as yet everything is in a more or less nebulous condition. What seems certain is that after the reports of 1,-night's anti-Chinese meeting appe."', they will be discussed at a subsequent meeting of Chinese, who will finally decide whether retaliative measures are to be proceeded with or not.

ENTHUSIASTIC ANTI-CHINESE MEETING. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, July 24. The Garrison Hail was filled, tonight, with an enthusiastic antiChinese audience, when Mr W. A. Lloyd, agent of the Anti-Chinese League, gave an address on the matter. A telegram 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 exclusion from the colony of people whose admission might make for the deterioration of our race. Unfortunately the imposition of a poll-tax has not been successful in preventing the influx of Chinese. 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 an increase in the number of Chinese in our country in the 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 further resolution was carried unanimously stating that inter-mar-riage between' Europeans and Asiatics should be prohibited by law, and it was also resolved that the present' unfair advantage enjoyed by Chinese in trade competition with Europeans should be immediately terminated by making factory legislation apply equally to Chinese and Europeans.