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ASIATIC INFLUX ALARM IN AUCKLAND DISTRICTS PUKEKOHE INVOKES AUTHORITY MARKET GARDENS AT MANGERE. (By Teletraah.) (Special to the "Evening Pott.") AUCKLAND, This Day. The question of what steps shall be taken to check the influx cf Asiatics into the Pukekohe district has occasioned considerable concern in that neighbourhood. The matter was diicussed at a meeting. Mr. G. T. Par. vin, who presided, said that in place* where a few years ego there were no Hindus and Chinese, there were now many of them. In tome they entire, ly controlled'-the retail fruit trade, and at the Auckland markets the buyers of Pukekohe produce were largely Asiatics. The increasing hold by these people was very aerious. Their low and frugal standard of living made it impossible for a European to bring up a family in decency and to i compete with them. '' Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 149, 21 December 1925, Page 6 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19251221.2.35&cl=search&srpos=175&e=-------100--101----0chinese+market+garden--&st=1