The voice of the Japanese community, insisting upon its right to an creasing prominence in the manage-rent of our civie society, has today attained an ominous stridency. The danger signals are flying and we ignore them at the peril of creating, for the first time a situation which these three communities. have very wisely avoided throughout the whole of the Settlement's past history.
'What, basically, is the Japanese community asking of their fellow-communities?' Fundamentally; itis stated to be that no one community shall over-dominate and dictate in municipal affairs. 'The official state ment of the Japanese Ratepayers' Association issued on December 24, 1040, is that: the Scitioment administration by taki 21 doen not alm at fu, monapaly over" te position ofthe Bris but fins atthe. dmproverent og. well fernationallzation of ie administra may have, Goal paricipadion Sdmministration, and" equal' bone fhelr'trage and living That is a statement with which their fellow communities can have no Quarrel, since it asseverates what Is essential in the Settlement's character. The Japanese pien asserts itself as being for a larger measure of JJapanese participation in the administration Of the Setilement, Lo, increase in Japanese Councillors, and. for the exercise of this greater voice in, municipal affairs to. the end of juchieving reforms in the machinery Jof the administration, including the finance and tax systems, and to effect hold which they assert an antiquated charter (the Land Regulations) has on the municipal life of the Seltlement.
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