Vancouver, BC. Feb 29. Father Neptune, spent the redocked here feomtly {dur little purchase of the Camano in a When ihe 'Barvers vot Canada mainder of his' fortune on the Gamsels from Japan pattered down Francisco and once more paces the the gangway, their straw sandals deck of a sailing ship's poop. He Proceling Live and. white vail Wil take. a cargo of lumber from Srere closely followed by four proud ill pick up a load of copra. Eden slippers, small and dainty, They Tore to Fiji and after disc! are husbands. who explained in il- went to sea before he was 16 and {ifesene nib the thy the English better than they spike" 2 end! wae, ter abort heir wies avo gratater of the] Normal College in. Tokyo, They Loopholes in the law and flaws Error Lends to Relene roreidestined for Ocean Falls anid in administration, 0 matter "Row Mieciclia"Britian Columbia where minute, are seized upon by lawyers orimany Japnnese eile here. in. defending their, Oriental wren the "xpectalintruetion "in clients in times of trouble, Still their own language is required for another case is reported where one hour a day atter the English- gaol door as been opened for a Speaking classes are dismissed. The convicted man. Imposition of the public Was interested in reading of cost of transporting Mah Gow. x The arrival of the four little ladies 'Chinese, from Prince Rapert to from Japan-—but talk of "the thin aul in' Vancouver as part of the tage of the weige" arose. Mrs. A.! costs of his conviction for smoking 'P. Essery, sqgretary of the Woman's opium, was held by Chief Justice Liberal "Association of Vancouver, 'Hunter to be illegal. A writ of and eeerctary, of the Canadian j habeas corpus was readily granted Daughters' League, said teaching of and the gates of the prison opened Japanese in the public schools by for the prisoner. A unique char-the newly arrived teachers would nete jo of the Opium Act, which be strenuously opposed. "Tt would Lordship described mean the thin edge of the wedge tic and imperative," requiring' of hi lingualism in this province, tie magistrate to impose as une and Oriental hi-lingualism at that,"
'4 fine, imprisonment and taid Mrs, Essery, in declaring that costs and a prison term in lien of protests "would be organized and coats, dep is Lordship of conveyed to both the Canadian and Jurisdiction to separate the costs British Columbia governments, She wnalty from the wided that. the matter would be rentenee. brought officially to the attention Japanese Lust of the Parent-Teacher Associations and to other bodies interested in Accor well between the schools of the Province.
Government Watehtul Questioned on the subject, Hon, an, Minister of Educa Vitoria, said the and actions of the fou we women teachers would be Most of officials of his. depart. ment, Any private schools establish. ed by Japanese teachers must con form (0 Canadian standards, said Mr, MacLean. "We cannot prevent the Japanese from establishing schools of their own." "Any teachers who wish to teach in the public schools of this province must live up {o certain standards of education that will make good Canadian citizens out of their pupils; such standards would enforced in any schools established by the Japanes Any teachers who wish to teach must have. cettifientes and. they the public schools
would not be granted to Japanese women."
Despite the protest voiced by the have to cit Jobs are on Vancouver I Others operate on the Columbia lower mainland the great Skeena, the northern B, C,
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