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 B4 THE SOUTH AFRICAN INDIAN QUESTION As the Minister is aware, some oi my countrymen have wished me to go further. They are dissatisfied that the trade licenses laws of the different Provinces, the Transvaal G ild Law, the Tranevaal Townships Act, the Transvaal Law 3 of 1885, have not been altered so as t0 gies them full rights of residence, trade and ownership of land. Some of them are dissatishsd that full inter·pjo·· `vincial migration is not permitted, and some are dissatis- hed that on the marriage question the Relief Bill goes no further than it does, They have asked me that all the above matters might be included in the Passive Resistance struggle. I have been unable to comply with their wishes. 'Whilst, therefore, they have not been included in the programme of Passive Resistance, it will not be denied that some day or other these matters will require further and sympathetic consideration by the Govern- ment. Complete satisfaction cannot he expected until full civic rights have been conceded to the resident Indian population I have told my countrymen that they will have to exercise patience and by all honourable means at their disposal educate public opinion so as to enable the Government of the day to go further than the present correspondence does. I shall hope that when the Europeans of South Africa fully appreciate the fact that now, as the importation of indentured labour from India is prohibited and as the Immigrants' Regulation Act of last year has in practice all but stopped further free indian immigration and that my countrymen do not aspire to any political ambition, they, the Europeans. will see the justice and indeed the necessity of my countrymen being granted the rights I have just referred to.