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Memorandum submitted by the Orient Islamic Educational Trust

The Orient Islamic Educational Trust was formed as a non-profit sharing Company under laws of the Union, with the object of establishing residential and day schools and hostels for Indian  children in Natal and elsewhere....

Notes for his Worship the Mayor on the The Indian Question in Durban as at 15/2/45

The Residential Property Regulation Ordinance No. 21/1944 Natal which controls the transfer of the occupation of dwellings from Europeans to Indians.....

Aid to India

For the past .ten years, January 26th has been observed in India as Independence Day. The great majority of the people of India long for the day when' their land will be completely independent of foreign control.

The Wragg Commission. A Study of Economic and Social factors

The Wragg Commission

INDENTURED INDIAN IMMIGRATION INTO NATAL 1860 -1885.

In its summary for the month of November 1860, The Natal Mercury noted that the news was principally confined to one topic. During the month an important change has taken place in our social fabric. A new element has been introduced and transfused into our population.

Natal and Indentured Indian Immigration

Owing to the attention which is at present being devoted to so called "Asiatic Penetration" the present time is perhaps an opprtune one at which attempt to review breifly the history of indentured Indian immigration into Natal.

Report of the Deputation to Capetown to wait upon the Hon. The Minister and Members of Parliament

Report of the Deputation to Capetown to wait upon the Hon. The Minister and Members of Parliament

D G Shepstone on the Asiatic Affairs Advisory Board in Natal

The first meeting of the Asiatic Affairs Advisory Board in Natal to which you appointed a member will be held at office of the Commissioner for Asiatic...

Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to the City Council

Re : Alleged Indian Penetration

We wrote to you on the 23rd ultimo and forwarded certain resolutions and declarations of policy. We have your acknowledgement dated 26th ultimo....

MINUTES OF THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED BY THE DURBAN CITY COUNCIL AND NATAL INDIAN ASSOCIATION AT THE REQUEST OF THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR

In the unavoidable absence of the Honourable the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Geake, Principal Immigration Officer, Durban, presided over the meeting. Mr. Geake reviewed the appointment of the Joint Committee in pursuance of the followings terms of reference :

Letter from the Durban City Council dated 28 Feb 1940

I have been informed by the Honourable the Minister of the Interior that he has deputed you to act for him in regards to the formation and functioning of a Joint Committee to be composed .........

STATEMENT BY NATAL INDIAN CONGRESS ON QUESTION OF PENETRATION

The Natal Indian Congress feels it incumbent upon itself to comment upon the telegram from the Hon.

JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE DURBAN CITY COUNCIL AND NATAL INDIAN ASSOCIATION AT THE REQUEST OF THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR

The City Council's representatives upon the Joint Committee will observe that there has been included in the agenda of the first meeting, as the second item of the Committee's business, the item "Arrangement of Procedure etc."

JOINT COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED BY THE DURBAN CITY COUNCIL AND NATAL INDIAN ASSOCIATION AT THE REQUEST OF THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR

Your letter hereon of the 9th arrived this morning simultaneously with a letter dated 7th March...

I am directed to acknowledge tbe receipt of your letter of the 20th ultimo on the question of Indian penetration in European areas

Natal Indian Congress minutes document

A Meeting of members of the Committee and branch representatives who had not relinquished their offices was convened by the Patron of the Natal Indian Congress, Mr. E.M. Faruk, and held at 76 Commercial Road -Durban on Sunday the 4th February 1940......

Letters from the Durban Burgesse Association

At a meeting of the Executive Committee of this Association held yesterday evening, the dual project of the Government to set up a Judicial Enquiry Commission and to establish a Joint Committee in relation with the above subject was discussed at length......

A meeting of the Committee of the Natal Indian Congress was held on Sunday 18th February, 1940.

The question of the alleged penetration by Indians of European areas and the appointment of a judicial commission and the establishment of a joint Committee of representatives of the Durban City Council and the Natal In:'l.ian Association were fully discussed and the following declaration of poli

Letter from the Office of the Minister of the Interior and Public Health to the Durban City Council dated 16th January 1940

Dear Mr Mayor,

I wish to confirm my telegram of todays date reading as follows-:

"Understand from Press reports that General Purpose Committee recommend refusal by City Council of suggestion by Department.........

Minutes of Lawrence Committee Special meeting held on 27th March 1940

The Chair man explained that this meeting had been convened originally for the specific purpose of interviewing Local Land and Estate Agents on the question of alleged Indian penetration in European residential areas in Durban......

Meeting held between the City Council and Natal Indian Association

A Special meeting of the above Committee will be held in No. 5 Committee Room, Municipal Buildings, an Wednesday next, 27th March, 1940, at 2.50 p.m. for the purpose of interviewing Land and Estate Agents in Durban on the points contained in the attached circular letter.....

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