CHINESE SEAMEN.
LANGUAGE TEST TO BE IMPOSED. Received June 15, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, June 14. Mr Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, replying to a seamen's deputation, said he intended to stop the increase of Chinese seamen in United Kingdom ports. The Minister said he had prepared a circular imposing a language test. If that, was unsuccessful he would look to other methods.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9116, 16 June 1908, Page 5
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65CHINESE SEAMEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9116, 16 June 1908, Page 5
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