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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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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. Iv] IMMIGRATION OF COLOURED RACES 1091 and compelled them, if engaged in trade, to trade in loca- tions, and compelled all Indians to be registered and pay a fee. The Act was the cause of complaints from the Imperial Government, but, after an arbitral award in 1895, only of friendly though urgent representations! After annexation there was a demand in the Colony for further restrictions, but the whole position was summed up unfavourably to their contention by Mr. Lyttelton in a dispatch of July 20, 1904, in which he declined to do more than allow the passing of the usual legislation on the Natal lines. The following extract from that dispatch is of great importance :—2 In this dispatch? Sir A. Lawley dwelt strongly on the danger with which the continued existence of the European commercial community in the Transvaal towns is threatened by the continued influx of Asiatic traders, with whom, owing to their lower standard of living, Europeans cannot compete, and on the consequent violent prejudice against the Asiatics which exists in every town of the Transvaal. He pointed out how in towns like Pietersburg the small European traders had been completely swamped by Indians, and contended that it depended upon the decision of the question of the position of Asiatics whether the Transvaal should remain in any sense a white man’s country. Two facts rendered immediate legislation imperatively urgent :— 1. The outbreak of plague in the Indian quarter of Johannesburg, illustrating the necessity for removing Indians to separate locations on sanitary grounds. 2. The fact that, as had been anticipated, a test case was being brought before the Supreme Court of the Transvaal to determine the validity of the old Boer Court’s interpretation of Law No. 3 of 1885. The final proposals of the Transvaal Government as set forth in that dispatch are that there should be introduced ‘nto the Legislative Council of the Transvaal— (@) An Immigration Restriction Law on the lines of the similar Cape and Natal Acts, providing inter alia an education test for would-be immigrants, for the purposes of which fndian languages should not be accepted. (0) A measure dealing with Indians on the lines of the Government Notice No. 356 of 1903, above referred to, providing :— ! Parl. Pap., C. 7911. * Parl. Pap., Cd. 2239, pp. 44 seq. * Parl. Pap., Cd. 2239, No. 2. Mm?

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