Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter IV. The immigration of coloured races

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cHAP. Tv] IMMIGRATION OF COLOURED RACES 1079 and though this Act has been amended in detail in 1908 (No. 230) and 1910 (No. 16) to lessen hardship, it still is in practical effect. An appeal from the Chinese of the Dominion met with a courteous reply from the Secretary of State, but also with a definite refusal to interfere in the legislation of the Dominion, as it was a matter for their decision! The number of Chinese in the Colony is steadily diminishing, and a Factories Act (No. 67) of 1910 is intended to prevent them monopolizing the laundry business, but it does not in terms attack Asiatics or Chinese. In Canada in 1900 (c. 32) the poll-tax was made a hundred dollars, but the number of Chinese increased, and a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the situation ; in 1902 they sent in a most valuable and able report, and recom- mended that the poll-tax should be raised to $500, and this was done in 1903 (c. 8), a protest from the Chinese being overruled, and the situation has since remained unchanged, except that certain concessions were made in 1908 (c. 14) in regard to bona-fide students and others.? On the other hand, an Act of 1911 restricts the entry of merchants by insisting on proof of bona fides. The number who pay this tax is quite considerable, and Canada is prepared to negotiate with China an arrangement similar to that in force with Japan for a check at the other end. In South Africa the famous experiment of Chinese labour in the Transvaal ? initiated under Crown Colony Government, and merely continued under responsible government, evoked an anti-Chinese Act from the Cape in 1904,* which prevented further Chinese immigration altogether except in the case of British subjects, and Newfoundland passed a similar Act in t New Zealand Parl. Pap., 1908, A. 1, pp. 15, 19; 1909, A. 2, p. 7 Parliamentary Debates, 1907, cxlii. 838 seq., 923 seq., 961 seq. * See Sess. Pap., 1902,No. 54. In Union Colliery Co. of British Columbia v. Bryden, [1899] A. C. 580, a provincial Act forbidding the employment of Chinese underground was held to be ultra vires, as being in fact an Act to prevent Chinese living in British Columbia. See above, p. 698. 3 See Parl. Pap., Cd. 1895, 1898, 1899, 1941, 1945, 1986, 2025, 2026, 2105, 2183 (1904) ; 2401 (1905) ; 2786, 2788, 2819, 3025; H.C. 114, 156 (1906); 3328, 3045 (1907) ; 3994 (1908). ¢ No. 37; No. 15 of 1906.

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