While on the subject of Japan it will be in order, perhaps, to refer to a recent judgement by the Court of Appeal of this province which has ruled that the British Columbia Legislature has not the right to prevent the employment of Japanese, as was intended in pending legislation by the insertion, as a term of government contracts or leases conferring rights and concessions in regard to public lands and natural resources, such as public lands, timber, water and mineral rights. The Appeal Court declared, briefly, that the Canadian Government has exclusive jurisdiction in such matters and that the Japanese Treaty Act of 1913 3s supreme.
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