CHINESE GARDENING.

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CHINESE GARDENING.

Auckland, November 4.

Fourteen Chinese were charged at the Police Court to-day with gardening on Sunday. Mr Napier, for the defence, contended that tho, men were engaged in work of necessity! They were not digging, now ground or engaged in the various ways of the mar&et gardener, but wore taking up vegetables. They were engaged by Ah Cbee, who bad something like fifty contracts to fill every Monday morning to various steamers and clubs, and it was impossible to carry out the work except by raising the vegetables on Sunday. He considered it would be Sabbatarianism run mad, much as he respected the Sabbath, to make it criminal to perform so necessary a work. Decision was reserved. Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12083, 6 November 1907, Page 4

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timespanner.blogspot.com/2009/08/domains-three-chinese-gardens.html The Domain's three Chinese gardens There were three Chinese market gardens in the immediate area of the Domain. A fourth was to the south, beside Khyber Pass in Newmarket, next to the Captain Cook Brewery from the 1870s at least (and connected with Chinese merchant James Ah Kew.)

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CHINESE GARDENS MAY NOT HAVE TO GO A 1S NEW BYLAW PROPOSED,

As a result of a fly nuisance in Russell terrace it was recently proposed that the City Council should pass a bylaw banishing market gardens from the precincts of the city. The proposal took definite shape, but the Chinese gardeners have since organised and taken steps in their own protection, and it seems 'likely that the "ardens will be allowed to remain on condition that stable manure is used only in winter time, and that artificial fertilisers only are worked into the ground during summer months. , "Millions of flies," complained about recently by a deputation to the City Council from residents of the southern end of Russell terrace and neighbourhood, were stated to have embarked upon their house-invading operations from the hotbeds at the Chinese gardens. The Chinese have since ascertained from the Department of Agriculture that flies do not breed in the winter time, hence the movement to permit the gardens to remain. 1 Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell, who wxs acting on behalf of the Chinese gardeners in the city, waited upon the Bylaws Committee of the City Council yesterday afternoon to place the request of the gardeners before the committee. Councillor M. F. Luckie, chairman of the committee, stated that he bad placed before the committee a report which Mr. Treadwell had received; and the committee was inclined to consider favourably the proposal of restricting the use of stable manure.to the wintor months,, provided the information given in the report was scientifically accurate. Mr. Treadwell read a letter received from the. Department of Agriculture (Horticulture Division), stating that it was not only possible to have a market garden without stable manure, but it was done. Necessary chemical properties were contained in artificial manures, but humus was contained in stable manure, and that was why its use was favoured. The house-fly did not breed in winter, so stable manure obtained in the winter months could be stacked without danger of flies breeding. Councillor W. H. Bennett mentioned that the Chinese had caused a good deal of trouble to the council's officers, as they had been known to get in manure early in the morning so as to avoid detection and then hide it under a light covering of earth. The Chinese must be impressed with the necessity of complying rigidly with bylaws framed to meet their wishes. Councillor J. M. Dale asked what would be the position if the council allowed the Chinese to obtain manure in the winter. Councillor Luckie: "It hae to be ! covered immediately." Mr. Treadwell said the council had only to specify the period within which stable manure might be used and its directions would be carried out. "Your clients must faithfully carry out the bylaw, otherwise there is not the slightest doubt but that the council will go the full length of prohibiting market gardening altogether," remarked Councillor Luckie. Mr. Treadwell stated that when final advice was received from the council, I the Chinese Conßul, who was interested in the matter, would advise the Chinese of what was being done. Councillor Luckie said that Mr. Treadwell would be advised .later of the committee's decision. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 53, 3 March 1923, Page 11

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CHINESE AND INDIANS

REPATRIATION URGED

TO MAKE ROPM FOR WORKLESS '

PETITION TO PARLIAMENT

' Immediate repatriation of all Asiatics, particularly Chinese, and Indians, in order that they may be replaced .in their occupations by approximately 12,000 unemployed New Zealand workless men and boys is advocated in a petition presented to Parliament yesterday by Mr.J. N. Massey (Government, Franklin) on behalf of C. E. Lloyd and 1456 others. It is stated-that there are about 6000 Chinese and Indians in -.- the Dominion, practically all of whom are working as market gardeners, hawkers, fruiterers, laundrymeriy and market garden labourers, working about ten hours a aay ana seven aays a week, depriving from work and livelihood nearly double the number .of Europeans on ordinary working hours. "The majority of .them, the petitioners allege," are living in insanitary and immoral conditions, gravely endangering the future of our present fine Maori race., Evidence of this is unfortunately notorious, ana . has been frequently exposed. Both Chinese and Indians come to New Zealand to make money, and return.with it fo their native land, thus continuously weakening the finances- of New Zealand. It is estimated, that they send or take an average of £100 each annually out of the country, which means that £600 000 a year is completely lost to New Zea^ land, instead of remaining here in circulation .as would be the case if they were replaced by our own people; 'The Asiatics.of New Zealand are undesirables, being invariably of a low caste and class in their own country and as, such cannot be assimilated into our population, and are therefore of no economic value to the country." Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1932, Page 14

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CHINESE BANKRUPT

DISCHARGE PROBABLE Unusual, features characterised a meeting of creditors in tho bankrupt estate of Young Man, a Chinese market gardener of Ohau, over 60 years of age, held before the Official Assignee CMr S, Tansley) to-day. Unsecured creditors . totalled . £237 16s 2d, the largest ' creditors' being Messrs. Parker and1 Vincent and Co Ltd., £46 11s 7d,' Market Gardeners Co., Ltd., £30 0s 2d, D. Bowio and Co. £35 10s 3d, and."Wah On and Co. £52 3s 9d. Assets, consisting of stockin-trade at Ohau, were £20. A statement prepared by his solicitor stated that for three j'ears prior to May, 1926, Young Man had-.carried on .business as a market gardeiier at Otaki. In the last of .these years ; he had a bad. season, which ate up his capital, so that he was loft with nothing but his tools and implements, and owing- a small account to Wah On and' Co. Messrs. D. Bowio and Co; and George Thomas and Co., fruit auctioneers " at"'Wellington,' each advanced him £50 to take' up a i garden of five acres at Ohau, at an annual rental of £12 10s per acre. The first crop of potatoes was not good, and moth destroyed the cabbages and cauliflowers. During- that year, however, he had repaid Thomas and Co.- The • next year countrymen advanced him small sums, and Market' Gardeners, Ltd., gave. him credit for seed. This | year also the. potato crop failed, leaving him in such debt that he could only file his petition. He could not read or write either Chinese or.English. His business was conducted wholly through fruit merchants. Garden expenses.had been a minimum, and he had done most of the work himself. He was at present working for relatives for his keep. The books consisted of a few papers presented. Young Man, who spoke through a Chinese with whom he had been living recently, was questioned by creditors,, but could make no offer. Mr. J. MaeDijff,. his solicitor, said the position was that as a matter of fact Young Man was too old, though willing enough, to do the work. Ho was over sixty, and his relatives and friends wished to send him back to China, where he could be kept by relatives more economically than here. Mr. Tansley: "His name did not carry him through1?" i Mr; Mac Duff: "No." It was the' practice, he said, for the remains of all Chinese to bo sent back to China for burial, and the health of Young, Man was such that' the relatives would be merely anticipating this course of action. The young Chinaman with whom the bankrupt had been living said that ho had fainted several times during the past week. A discussion took place regarding the necessity for payment of the debts before Young Man could'receive '. his' discharge; Asked whether it was not a practice for relatives or children to undertake the discharge of Chinamen's debts, in the case of death, the Chinese present seemed not to have heard of such a practice. Young Man was a bachelor. A creditor said that the practice of assisting Chinese market gardeners, carried on fairly extensively by fruit merchants, was not, an his opinion, conducted on sufficiently business-like lines. The meeting was adjourned sine die, creditors present raising no objection to the Assignee's suggestion that the discharge might as well be granted. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 11

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MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. [Before Mr. E. Hardcastle, R.M.]

A Chinese case occupied the attention of the Resident Magistrate for some time today. The plaintiff was a disciple of Confucius named See Chong, and he sought to recover from Messrs. R. Smith and H. Sullivan tho sum of £17. The plaintiff in his declaration alleged that the defendants had oharged him £12 more than he was entitled to $ay for the use and occupation of a market garden, and that they had unlawfully distrained on a horse and cart of his at a timo when he was not indebted to them, wheroforo he olaimed £5 as damages. A follow-countryman of See Chong interpreted the proceedings, and the plaintiff was sworn in tho Chinese fashion. Evening Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 16 November 1882, Page 3 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP18821116.2.28&cl=search&srpos=131&e=-------100--101----0chinese+market+garden--&st=1