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PROTECTION SOUGHT MARKET GARDENERS AUCKLAND PROBLEM
ASIATICS' COMPETITION (By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, March 10.
A strong plea for protection from increasing competition by Hindus and Chinese was made to the Minister of Labour (the.Hon. H. T. Armstrong) as deputy for the Prime Minister, by a deputation representing the market gardeners at Pukekohe and in the suburbs of Auckland, and European retaii fruiterers in the metropolitan area.'The deputation urgently asked lor aid on the ground that Hindus threatened to capture the whole of the market garden industry in the Franklin district, and in the second place, thatthe higher wage rates now being enforced made it increasingly difficult to meet .the competition, of Asiatics, Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 15 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19370311.2.164&cl=search&srpos=181&e=-------100--101----0chinese+market+garden--&st=1
ASIATICS' COMPETITION (By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, March 10.
A strong plea for protection from increasing competition by Hindus and Chinese was made to the Minister of Labour (the.Hon. H. T. Armstrong) as deputy for the Prime Minister, by a deputation representing the market gardeners at Pukekohe and in the suburbs of Auckland, and European retaii fruiterers in the metropolitan area.'The deputation urgently asked lor aid on the ground that Hindus threatened to capture the whole of the market garden industry in the Franklin district, and in the second place, thatthe higher wage rates now being enforced made it increasingly difficult to meet .the competition, of Asiatics, Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 15 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19370311.2.164&cl=search&srpos=181&e=-------100--101----0chinese+market+garden--&st=1