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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HAP. 1v] IMMIGRATION OF COLOURED RACES 1093 A plain distinction may be drawn between these two classes. With respect to the first class—future immigrants—His Majesty's Government recognize that, for the reasons set out in your Dispatch, there is a strong opposition among the European population of the Transvaal to a continued and unrestricted influx of small traders and others of Asiatic race. The same feeling has already received expression not only in Australian and New Zealand legislation, but also in the Acts passed by the Legislatures of the neighbouring Colonies of the Cape and Natal within the last few years. His Majesty’s Government, deeply as they regret the necessity of hindering the free movement of British Indian subjects within the Empire, feel that they are unable to withhold their sanction to the immediate introduction into the Legislative Council of the Transvaal of a measure restricting immigration on the lines of those Acts. The adoption in this measure of a language test in a European language only, and the exclusion of the alternative test in a literary Indian language, will undoubtedly effect the purpose in view of limiting, and indeed will, as I believe, almost entirely check, the influx of British Indians and Asiatics into the country. The exclusion of this Indian literary test will, as you are aware, in all probability prevent the Indian Government from viewing favourably any scheme for the introduction of Indian labourers under indenture, but I understand that the Transvaal Government do not now press any such scheme, and I realize that something is to be said from the South African point of view of keeping the legislation in the various Colonies of South Africa on this subject as far as possible on a uniform basis. With respect to the second class—British Indians—now resident in the Transvaal, who are confirmed by the decision of the Supreme Court in the rights for which His Majesty’s Government have so long contended, the case is wholly different. Every rational precaution to safeguard the health of the community and of the British Indians themselves must of course be taken, and regulations securing this end with respect to their residence, and to the general treatment of their lower classes, carefully prescribed. But an apprehended trade competition from the British Indians now in the country, whose number is now compara- tively small, and will, under proposed restrictions on immi- grants, be in a diminishing proportion, cannot be accepted as sufficient reason for the legislation proposed. His Majesty's Government have steadily declined to allow this

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