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AGAINST THE CHINESE.
o [ THE ANTI-ASIATIC LEAGUE. CAMPAIGN IN WELLINGTON. An organiser has come among Wellington people to try to rouse them from their indifference to Chinese competi, tion in business. From time to time various attempts havo been mado to wako the people up from their lethargy, but a 'great part of the populace still takes its washing to the Chinese laundry and buys its bananas from the Chinese i frniterer. Tho latest knight errant is I Mr. John Cameron, a representative of tho Asiatic League recently organised lin tho North. Ho explained tho objects of tho association to an audience of about twenty-five men in tho Druids' 'Hall last night. Mr. Bloch presided. The speaker said that the present anti- Asiatic movement began in February at Masterton, and had progressed through tho whole of the Wairarapa. The question before tho Wellington public was : "Are the Chinese a fit, race or not for settlement here?" paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19070502.2.14&cl=search&srpos=85&e=-------100--1----0chinese+masterton--&st=1 Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 103, 2 May 1907
o [ THE ANTI-ASIATIC LEAGUE. CAMPAIGN IN WELLINGTON. An organiser has come among Wellington people to try to rouse them from their indifference to Chinese competi, tion in business. From time to time various attempts havo been mado to wako the people up from their lethargy, but a 'great part of the populace still takes its washing to the Chinese laundry and buys its bananas from the Chinese i frniterer. Tho latest knight errant is I Mr. John Cameron, a representative of tho Asiatic League recently organised lin tho North. Ho explained tho objects of tho association to an audience of about twenty-five men in tho Druids' 'Hall last night. Mr. Bloch presided. The speaker said that the present anti- Asiatic movement began in February at Masterton, and had progressed through tho whole of the Wairarapa. The question before tho Wellington public was : "Are the Chinese a fit, race or not for settlement here?" paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19070502.2.14&cl=search&srpos=85&e=-------100--1----0chinese+masterton--&st=1 Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 103, 2 May 1907