Post by NZBC on Jun 24, 2012 14:53:01 GMT 12
The Chinese appear to be in a fair way to become the ruling race in Greytown, (writes the Dominion's" Wairarapa correspondent). There are now thirty doing business as market gardeners and green-grocers in the place, and more are coming. One European fruiterer, who entered into competition with the foreign element, had to close his doors; another who was doing fairly well, and buying largely from a European farmer, came home on one day and found that his supplier had sold his crops and leased his land to a Chinese co-operation.Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 312, 31 December 1907, Page 4