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Post by NZBC on Sept 4, 2010 22:24:04 GMT 12
WHITE v. YELLOW IN THE FRUIT TRADE EUROPEANS GAINING GROUND BATTLE AT THE CITY'S CENTRE. (By Memor.) By the sign of the golden and rubypyramid the Chinese fruit shops have Ions; been known in Wellington. It is not necessary to look for a name such as Hang Ching at the front. The neat geometrical arrangement of the oranges, apples, and bananas proclaims the Asiat'C proprietary. All the alien windows aie dressed plike. A style was set decades ago, and it has been followed year after year with the strictness of a religious rite. The prices are also the same on any given day_, and so is the small (a peculiar combination of greem tea, roast peanut, fruit and "the East"'). The Chinese have a brotherly code among themselves against under-cutting/ and in these times they do not seem to bother about lowering their prices to kill white competition. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19130521.2.17&cl=search&srpos=6&e=-------10--1----0willie+ah+chee--&st=1
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