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THE YELLOW STREAK. SOME OPINIONS.
A gentleman calling himself Wun Gun —he may be a gun, but it is doubtful whether he is a Chinaman has written a curious screed in psudo pigeon English, Anglo-Chincc variety, on "Our Dash' of Yellow," and on tho recent remarks of a warehouseman under this head. "Wun Gun" geta off the following shots "You writes 'Dash of Yalu.' You no like Chinese for him is elb cheap. You sa this no legitmat trading. Alto same you toll how white man take shop he no want, ho keep Chinkao walk about inuoli. Legitmat besnio, oh ah? You fia John no comforts you come s<vo Chinmati cat him duck. Wliik i mau have labbit, or flish Horn eliopp kookeo. Yeaa, Chinee men 'pool' and buy largo quantity cigalottes; whiteo man, ho plefer pay warehouseman 30 or 40 per oont. f of himself. Yc<ss, Chinkee teacco white man co-opelation, Sloshalism, allo aame." Here is Chinophile plea founded on our early history, by "1867" "The writer in 1867 worked at vegetable raising for tho Wellington market. Tho •Maori women of Petono were the first class weedora of the time. The writer's houra of work wcro 6 a.m. till after 8 p.m., wage 16s per week that would be equal to about 10 per week at the present time in purchasing power. Ono item will auffko to show what I mean j boots now 16s w-oro then 20a and over. Tho vegetable cultivator of that period wore Britishers and 'Maoris. In a few years tho majority of the British here migrated to the Rangitikei, iManawntu, and Wairarapa districts, and the Maori migrated to the New Plymouth district, flcalo blight struck the apple trees, and some oilier deals struck the peach trees. The old men who had not migrated grew older, and the young men were blighted with a disinclination to till tho ground. I do not know wlven the first Chinese gardener started, but I do know that 'ho was a Godsend to tho inhabitants of Wellington as repardcd the vegetable aupply. If a law was pawed deporting the Chinese gardener, wo would find out how much wo are in (lebted to industrious John for vegetables." It k further alleged by "1867" that John, bein;; a poultry-consumer, is not cheaji liver. "European backs up Mr. Harris concerning the Chinese raid in fruit and tobacco, ho says "They do not depend solely on tobacco goods as a tobacconist does. They keep almost every trade a goods, viz., drapery, crockery, grocery, fruit, butter, eggs, milk, confectionery, and brush waro. and even take the picture from packets of cigarettes and retail them 6 at Id, and cut a c,i garotte m two for the little boy who has only a halfpenny. How can European compete against that? They employ no labour, and live on the smell of an oil Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 150, 27 June 1905, Page 5 Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 150, 27 June 1905, Page 5
A gentleman calling himself Wun Gun —he may be a gun, but it is doubtful whether he is a Chinaman has written a curious screed in psudo pigeon English, Anglo-Chincc variety, on "Our Dash' of Yellow," and on tho recent remarks of a warehouseman under this head. "Wun Gun" geta off the following shots "You writes 'Dash of Yalu.' You no like Chinese for him is elb cheap. You sa this no legitmat trading. Alto same you toll how white man take shop he no want, ho keep Chinkao walk about inuoli. Legitmat besnio, oh ah? You fia John no comforts you come s<vo Chinmati cat him duck. Wliik i mau have labbit, or flish Horn eliopp kookeo. Yeaa, Chinee men 'pool' and buy largo quantity cigalottes; whiteo man, ho plefer pay warehouseman 30 or 40 per oont. f of himself. Yc<ss, Chinkee teacco white man co-opelation, Sloshalism, allo aame." Here is Chinophile plea founded on our early history, by "1867" "The writer in 1867 worked at vegetable raising for tho Wellington market. Tho •Maori women of Petono were the first class weedora of the time. The writer's houra of work wcro 6 a.m. till after 8 p.m., wage 16s per week that would be equal to about 10 per week at the present time in purchasing power. Ono item will auffko to show what I mean j boots now 16s w-oro then 20a and over. Tho vegetable cultivator of that period wore Britishers and 'Maoris. In a few years tho majority of the British here migrated to the Rangitikei, iManawntu, and Wairarapa districts, and the Maori migrated to the New Plymouth district, flcalo blight struck the apple trees, and some oilier deals struck the peach trees. The old men who had not migrated grew older, and the young men were blighted with a disinclination to till tho ground. I do not know wlven the first Chinese gardener started, but I do know that 'ho was a Godsend to tho inhabitants of Wellington as repardcd the vegetable aupply. If a law was pawed deporting the Chinese gardener, wo would find out how much wo are in (lebted to industrious John for vegetables." It k further alleged by "1867" that John, bein;; a poultry-consumer, is not cheaji liver. "European backs up Mr. Harris concerning the Chinese raid in fruit and tobacco, ho says "They do not depend solely on tobacco goods as a tobacconist does. They keep almost every trade a goods, viz., drapery, crockery, grocery, fruit, butter, eggs, milk, confectionery, and brush waro. and even take the picture from packets of cigarettes and retail them 6 at Id, and cut a c,i garotte m two for the little boy who has only a halfpenny. How can European compete against that? They employ no labour, and live on the smell of an oil Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 150, 27 June 1905, Page 5 Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 150, 27 June 1905, Page 5