The Chinese in New Zealand. April, 1896,

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The Chinese in New Zealand.

The Chinese enumerated at the census of April, 1896, numbered 3711 against 4444 in 1891, a decrease of 16-49 per cent. Of the number in 1896, 3685 were males and 26 females. Of the males 88 were returned as married. The number of the Chinese under 14 was 14 males and 11 females. Thesenumbers do not include the issue of unions between Chinese males and European females. The occupations show 2162 goldminers, 527 market and other gardeners, with 129 assistants, 91 greegrocers, and 38 assistants, 94 shop or storekeepers, and 30 assistants, 59 laborers, 43 hotel servants, 31 vegetable, 27 general, and 25 fish hawkers, 30 laundrymen and women, 30 domestic servants, 29 lodginghouse keepers, 27 cooks (not domestic), 24 farm labourers, 19 eating house keepers, 19 grocers, with 21 assistants, 16 fishermen, 11 merchants with 6 assistants, 7 drapers and 1 assistant. Amongst various others in small numbers each, are returned 1 law clerk, 2 missionaries, 5 medical men, 1 deni.ist, 1 chemist, 1 interpreter, 2 bankers, 1 opium seller. Three of the Chinese were inmates of hospitals, and 3 others of benevolent asylums. While 22 were lunatics, only 2 were prisoners in gaol.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3455, 26 January 1897,

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ELLQW PEIUL.

Rs is not. to to wondered -aib thaib an> agitation is on foot to form ■branches OS an anti-Aisdaitici League throughout the colony, when we read, such unsavoury rmonsels as were gleaned by a Diumodin Star reporter, who ■ acwompatnied by witnesses, managed to effect a surprise visis. to Chinese dens in Walker.. and ■ Stafford 'Streets, and found a disgusting tsat© of things not previously suspected. Houses jnnueutdally owned,and rented by Ghinaroen proved noisome warrens, consisting of la'byrimfchs of rooms, only six .by six no ventilation, no light. These were occupied 'by hawkers, who sleep among their vege.ta.bles overnight. In one room a tuberculous Chinaman was found, spitting; .'aiimong hiisi wares sans ceremony. In some places the kitchien, eating-room, laitrine, jjoultry run, scullery, coaly awl ;and vegetable depot were pi-aotioally al one compartment. One. gambling-hell was-so construttted that ai raid by the jjolico was a physical impossibility. Beside larger evils, bpiuau-smoking was a mere detail. European _ women, were, found joon(M)rtin{r with, belestialfii." In one roonilafctylishily-iiressied woman, ladylike,, in coinpainy with a y sinister-looking CliinwmgiH, said shle was twentyfour and had come from Waihi and wafl viMting the Chinesef dens in tlhe principal centres.

In 1905 2£4 Chinetse . men and 15 Chinese women arrived in this colony; nmd at tlie end'of A.j>ril, 1006, tJie total uunilbcr 1 of Chinees in the colony was 2570, including 55 women. Of these 1054' men and 41 woninn ware in the North Island, and 1461 men and 14 women 'in the South! Island. In £h£-'Wellington. Provincial district there Were (563 Chinese mem and 30 Chinese women. In Wellington city, 324 1 men and) 18 w'onieu; Hutt, 40 mem a,nd 1 woman; Fear therston county, 10 men ; Greytowij, '2 men? Cartertom, A men and 1 woman; Masterton, 27 men and 5 women ; Pa,lmetrston North, 71 men, 3 women. Otnijro had 815 men «mnl 5 women, "Dunedin 'being thei hlome of 191 Chinese men a.ud 5 Oli'inese ,vomen. Canterbury had 123 men, Chrifffc'hurcf). holding i Bof theui. Aiuokl'and lifldi 254 mtai n«d T w«mcn, A'udkland city confaiinirig -103 mehi and 7 women. Tarannki had 55 men and 1 woman; Hawkea Wny 1, 82 .ji«n nnd 3 women; Marlborouprh, 13 mien; Nelson, 205 men and 9 women, Nelson city containing IB men; Gr^ymouth, 105 men and 8 women, Tlie remainder of the Chinese in the colony arc scaitered qll over it, in isolated one*, or- groups from four 'v £ye to 19, in various places, Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10532, 28 March 1907