row On Owe! Commestonmeser Victoria, B.C. May 8
The statement made recently by Dr. T. Shich, managing director the Chinese Trade Bureau of the United States, who is lecturing in, this country, that the Chinese population of Canada is diminishing: and that in twenty-five years there will be no Chinese left here has} rt it from con-fife coast province of Britist Columbia where the large of Orientals in Canada is found. The number of deaths of Chinese has equalled that of births in the past four years with a tendency towards a majority of deaths. By a Federal Act of 1923 entry restricted to Government representatives, children born in Canada, merchants unaccompanied by wives, and students. To this must be added the return of a certain number to their native land.
The number of births among the Japanese, on the contrary, is about seven times that of deaths and in addition there is a "gentleman's agreement" with Japan under which immigration from that country is restricted to 450. Of these the majority has been of females. While the census of 1921 showed 21,523 Chinese in British Columbia as compared with 10,934 Japanese, next year's census will probably give about equal figures.
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