["A Pearler Interviewed", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 13 February 1909]
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During our three years observation here Mr. Taylor, we have noticed that it is an easy matter for aliens to get ashore in Hedland even after "muster," and is it not just as possible, or more so, at Broome, when the number of similar colored faces on the jetty would make detection more difficult?
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Do the Broome whitemen recognise that the Asiatic question is a national one, which should engage the ernest attention of every man who honors his native Australia?
"The people of Broome are far more keen on a White Australia than the citizens of our capitals are. We know how the Chinese and Japanese have injured other places. We recognise all the evils which fall on Broome if no restrictions were placed on those two Asiatic races; we don't want them let into Australia, and will assist to our utmost in keeping them out."
