THE WILY ASIATIC.
_ *■ SMUGGLING OP CHINESE INTO AUSTRALIA. SPEECH BY A FEDERAL MINISTER. Received March 5, i 0 a;iri.MELBOURNE, March 5: The Hoi 1 . G. F. Pearcc, Federal Minister for Defence, speaking at a banquet, said there were many matters wherccn agreement was required by Australia in regard, to a common method of working with other nation?. Considerable energy had bsen displayed in preventing the smuggling in of Chinese, but he altogether drprecatod ai: anM-Chinese fo-siing which would work nothing ,'mA injury to themselves. "AustialiHa," he said, "is too proud and too j'big a> nation for such prejudices. 'The preamt Government i 3 de-tsr- ; mined thai the immigration and quarantine' Jaws shall not be set at nought."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3131, 6 March 1909, Page 5
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117THE WILY ASIATIC. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3131, 6 March 1909, Page 5
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