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THE FRUIT TRADE.
INTERESTING EVIDENCE. CHINESE, ASSYRIANS, AND GREEKS.
Some interesting evidence on the subject of the fruit trade was given recently before the Agricultural and Stock Committee and laid on the table of the House yesterday. Charles Bagley, fruit importer, Auckland, speaking on behalf of the European fruiterers, said they would ask for some assistance in dealing with the fruit trade in New Zealand, against the Chinese, who are becoming a troublesome factor. They are becoming monopolisers of the trade, more particularly in Wellington. "'I would like briefly to^say," remarked Mr. Bagley, '"that while we are making such a noiso about the Chinese in South Africa there is no town or city in the world in the same condition as Wellington in regard to these Chinese, and I am prepared to say that without fear of contradiction. . . It is impassible for the" European traders to compete with them under the conditions, and I am sorry to say that the auctioneers are catering for them to a great extent. . . They have got the Chinese, and it is a shame the way they assist them. . . I have made a list so far as I can of the number of shops in Wellington. There are something like 113 fruit shops, and out of this 113 there are about 100 Chinese and 13 European shops, and some of these 13 shops are very small." Mr. Bagley went to say that what he had said in. reference to the Chinese in Wellington was to a greater or less extent gradually occurring in Auckland, and he' urged that what was required was 'for the House to give them some assistance to try and help the Europeans to make an honest living in. a European country against these people, "who are apparently being assisted by some people or other to such an. extent as to enable them to monopolise the whole of the trade in this city and in Auckland
Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 19 July 1905, Page 5
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INTERESTING EVIDENCE. CHINESE, ASSYRIANS, AND GREEKS.
Some interesting evidence on the subject of the fruit trade was given recently before the Agricultural and Stock Committee and laid on the table of the House yesterday. Charles Bagley, fruit importer, Auckland, speaking on behalf of the European fruiterers, said they would ask for some assistance in dealing with the fruit trade in New Zealand, against the Chinese, who are becoming a troublesome factor. They are becoming monopolisers of the trade, more particularly in Wellington. "'I would like briefly to^say," remarked Mr. Bagley, '"that while we are making such a noiso about the Chinese in South Africa there is no town or city in the world in the same condition as Wellington in regard to these Chinese, and I am prepared to say that without fear of contradiction. . . It is impassible for the" European traders to compete with them under the conditions, and I am sorry to say that the auctioneers are catering for them to a great extent. . . They have got the Chinese, and it is a shame the way they assist them. . . I have made a list so far as I can of the number of shops in Wellington. There are something like 113 fruit shops, and out of this 113 there are about 100 Chinese and 13 European shops, and some of these 13 shops are very small." Mr. Bagley went to say that what he had said in. reference to the Chinese in Wellington was to a greater or less extent gradually occurring in Auckland, and he' urged that what was required was 'for the House to give them some assistance to try and help the Europeans to make an honest living in. a European country against these people, "who are apparently being assisted by some people or other to such an. extent as to enable them to monopolise the whole of the trade in this city and in Auckland
Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 19 July 1905, Page 5
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19050719.2.62&cl=search&srpos=2&e=-------100--1----0chinese+fruit+auckland-all&st=1