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and arrangements were made in 1909 direct with the Portu-
guese Government for the deportation of Asiatics via that
territory. In the summer of 1909 the matter was discussed
by Lord Crewe with Mr. Smuts and Mr. Gandhi, but nothing
was done up to the coming into existence of the Union.
Since Union the Government of India has under the power
given by an Act of 1910 decided to prevent immigration from
India to South Africa with effect from July 1, 1911, on the
ground that there is no security that the Indians will be
allowed to become citizens of the Union if they so desire
after the expiration of their indentures. On the other hand,
the Government of the Union decided to meet the wishes of
the Indians by passing an Immigration Aci in 1911 on
the usual method with a short language test, which on the
Australasian model is based on dictation of fifty words in
any language (not in theory necessarily European) in pre-
ference to the mere writing of an application in a European
language of Natal and the Cape. At the same time Mr. Smuts
has announced that the regulation would not prevent the
entry of a few educated natives every year for the require-
ments of the community as regards law. medicine, and
religion 1
§ 5. THE KANAKAS IN AUSTRALIA
There remains one case to be considered, that of the
deportation of the Kanakas who were introduced into Queens-
land for the purpose of work on the sugar plantations. At
first the introduction of these Pacific Islanders was conducted
with much brutality, and kidnapping was common ; it was
at last regulated in some measure by Imperial Acts of 1872
and 1875, and by Colonial Acts which it was hardly, however,
possible adequately to enforce in the utterly barbarous
condition of the islands. It was, however, felt in the south
that a white Australia was essential, and the Commonwealth
passed in 1901 an Act (No. 16) which arranged for the deporta-
tion of all Kanakas within a few years. Representations were
Magda v. Registrar of Asiatics, ibid., 397; Ho Si v. Vernon, ibid., 1074;
Chotabhai v. Minister of Justice and Another, {1910] T. P. 1151 (reversed on
appeal, 4 Buch. App. 305) ; Ismail v. Rex, [1908] T. 8. 1088; Lalloo v. Rex,
ibid. 624, ! See Parl. Pap., Cd. 5579; 5582, p. 47.
