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THE CHINESE QUESTION.
IB various parts of tho colony tradesmen and shopkeepers are moving in the direction of endeavouring to cope with the evils from the tawns being ovor run with Chinese In Wellington, particularly, the yellowskins nppear to be very Btrong, and strenuous efforts aro being maie todUlodgo thuni from tho position they occupy. It ia not necessary for us now to rofer to the danger our business people run in having to compote with tho Celeatiuls. The races ora co uiarly unlike >n morality, disposition and habits of life, that any fair competition between tbe two races ii impossible. Tho CbinamOD in Sydney, wo may here remark, are known to work 19 hours a day. l'hero is v«p liille doubt that thore exists everywhere a growing senao of the magnitude of the interest at stake, and in other parti of tho colony, judging from information received, the co'onials show no tendency to fink iota a slata of apathy or indifference in regard to tho Chinoao question. Wo wore informed some little while a?o that an inspection of tho Chinese colony in Auck land/ ro vested "a shacking ftato of thinge," some of the promises oooupied by them being in an indescribable tfcita of fl'th. Though perhaps the danger of an overwhelming influx of Ohinoie into Wanganui may not at present be imminent, yot wo must all rocogniao tho fact that their number* aro flowly inoreaeing. At present they aro ehicfly confined ta cultivating and hawking vegetables, Helling fruit and grccsiies, but the people of Wanganui must nit thick their efforts wiil bo confined to these occupations. In laundry work and cabinet- making they will be found dreadful competitor*, especially ahould they so doem fit, ai they have done in Wallington, to start a steam laundry worka, thus endoavoring to ejt the work from under tho feet of pooi hard-working women, whose only means of oarning a livelihood it by taking in washing and ironing. If tho people of Wnnganui woro to tako v stand now, a«d endeavor to provont any moro Celestials from opening up in Wanganui, it would avert tbo noce'sity, which will assuredly arieo at some futuro timo, of doing the Chinnmoa hero what might perhaps be deemed an obvious wrong, though done in self defence. Wo wera exceedingly pleag^d to observe that tbe Wanganui Womon'i Political League aro in communication with tiio Woll.ngton Anti Chineiy Looguo asking for information ss to whst stops the League intended taking with regtrd to tbo anti Chinese q'jo.tion. If Ihe tradespeople hero ore not alive to the necessity of something bjing done, wo at least hopo tho Womon'a Political League will at once sot about showing thorn the danger looming in tho distance
[Binco writing the abovo a Wellington telegram announces that tho Chinese aro asking for protection for tUainselves, aud favor tho £100 poll tfts, as they are being cut out by new arrival* of fellow-country* men. Surely no greater proof 1* needed than this of tho undcsirability cf tha Chinese inllux, when they dread computing with one soother THE CHINESE QUESTION.http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WH18950913.2.8&srpos=35&e=-------100--1----0wong+alexandra+fruit--
Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8649, 13 September 1895, Page 2
IB various parts of tho colony tradesmen and shopkeepers are moving in the direction of endeavouring to cope with the evils from the tawns being ovor run with Chinese In Wellington, particularly, the yellowskins nppear to be very Btrong, and strenuous efforts aro being maie todUlodgo thuni from tho position they occupy. It ia not necessary for us now to rofer to the danger our business people run in having to compote with tho Celeatiuls. The races ora co uiarly unlike >n morality, disposition and habits of life, that any fair competition between tbe two races ii impossible. Tho CbinamOD in Sydney, wo may here remark, are known to work 19 hours a day. l'hero is v«p liille doubt that thore exists everywhere a growing senao of the magnitude of the interest at stake, and in other parti of tho colony, judging from information received, the co'onials show no tendency to fink iota a slata of apathy or indifference in regard to tho Chinoao question. Wo wore informed some little while a?o that an inspection of tho Chinese colony in Auck land/ ro vested "a shacking ftato of thinge," some of the promises oooupied by them being in an indescribable tfcita of fl'th. Though perhaps the danger of an overwhelming influx of Ohinoie into Wanganui may not at present be imminent, yot wo must all rocogniao tho fact that their number* aro flowly inoreaeing. At present they aro ehicfly confined ta cultivating and hawking vegetables, Helling fruit and grccsiies, but the people of Wanganui must nit thick their efforts wiil bo confined to these occupations. In laundry work and cabinet- making they will be found dreadful competitor*, especially ahould they so doem fit, ai they have done in Wallington, to start a steam laundry worka, thus endoavoring to ejt the work from under tho feet of pooi hard-working women, whose only means of oarning a livelihood it by taking in washing and ironing. If tho people of Wnnganui woro to tako v stand now, a«d endeavor to provont any moro Celestials from opening up in Wanganui, it would avert tbo noce'sity, which will assuredly arieo at some futuro timo, of doing the Chinnmoa hero what might perhaps be deemed an obvious wrong, though done in self defence. Wo wera exceedingly pleag^d to observe that tbe Wanganui Womon'i Political League aro in communication with tiio Woll.ngton Anti Chineiy Looguo asking for information ss to whst stops the League intended taking with regtrd to tbo anti Chinese q'jo.tion. If Ihe tradespeople hero ore not alive to the necessity of something bjing done, wo at least hopo tho Womon'a Political League will at once sot about showing thorn the danger looming in tho distance
[Binco writing the abovo a Wellington telegram announces that tho Chinese aro asking for protection for tUainselves, aud favor tho £100 poll tfts, as they are being cut out by new arrival* of fellow-country* men. Surely no greater proof 1* needed than this of tho undcsirability cf tha Chinese inllux, when they dread computing with one soother THE CHINESE QUESTION.http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WH18950913.2.8&srpos=35&e=-------100--1----0wong+alexandra+fruit--
Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8649, 13 September 1895, Page 2