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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 29, 3 February 1904, Page 7

ASIATIC LAROUR IN ROJJTH AFBIGA. NEW ZEALANDER'S EXPERIENCE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN. this clay. Ml. S. J. Easton, who lived for ten years in rjouth Africa, and spent most of his time in Natal, says, in a letter, to the ''Star": "7 know the Transvaal well, having worked iii the mines. Judging from my experience and observation,-1 certainly think that Mr. Seddon is quite right in the view he has taken of the situation. In my opinion the Chinee is not required, and if he is allowed to enter South Africa there will be trouble, as I know the great majority of the white population are opposed to the introduction of either the Indian coolie or the Chinese. As regards petitions, they can be numerously signed out there for that and other purposes. The presence of the Asiatic is always a menace to the European, and a source of great danger, as in the case of the Indian coolie in Natal. The coolie was introduced into Natal about 30 years ago for the development of the sugar industry, and ho now fills every department of labour. The Natal Government railways employ him by the thousand, pay him 20/ per month, and build him a house out of kerosene tins and old packing eases and place ii in a swamp, and feed him on rice, and he finds bis own curry. Durban Town Council and I'ieU-rinaritz-bui'g Council employ him by the thousand for all purposes under similar conditions. The Natal collieries employ him to do 90 per cent, of their work, and all the other coal mines in Natal, likewise ull the sugar mills, employ the coolie. He is. of course, a British subject, and when he has resided in the colony for 12 months he is entitled to a vote. The Natal Government, recognising that the coolie wa.s becoming so numerous that any time he chose to combine he could form a strong political party, passed a bill to disenfranchise him, which bill they could not get ratified by ihe Imperial Government. The Natal Government then appointed n board, with power to grant or refuse the franchise to whatever applicants they pleased, nil applications to be made to tbe said board, whose decision is (inal. The coolies arc- the ritt'-ratt of India. They are lilthv in person and immoral in habits. They are as prolific as rabbits, and (hey lower the status of the European, lie cause you can never bring an inferior race in contact with a superior without endangering the position of the superior. They are indented for three years, and if they elect to stay in the colony after chat. I hey are subject to a poll tax of £3. They always elect to stay, but liicy never pay. Everyone employs the coolie. The butcher and baker, and even the lawyer employs him in the oflice for clerical work. He attends the Government schools. .u-.d is educated free, and he has an advantage over ihe whit.? boy, as ihe latter lias to pay 1/ per week and lincl books, and then tin- coolie boy is taken into a lawyer's uflice and competes against the Kuropc-an. as be generally works for less than half Ihe wages. 1 will do him credit to the extent that he is apt. and passes some creditable examinations. but the ordinary coolie (which word means labourer) does not contribute anything to trade or iho revenue. The hovel he lives in pays no taxes; he is no use to the tailor, as he wears no clothes beyond a loin cloth; he never buy- boot.-, because he never wears any; 00 per cent of them are vegetarians, so they contribute nothing to the butcher. The only person he benefits is the publican, as he consumes an enormous quantity of coolie rum, a vile decoction which is manufactured from sugar iv the colony and served to them over the bar at so much per glass. The coolie can consume as much as he pleases, or can pay for, but must not take any away. The Tongaat Sugar Company on one occasion applied to the Indian Immigration Trust Board for importation of Indian mechanics, and the application was granted for blacksmiths, fitters, turners, coppersmiths. body-makers, platelayers, etc.. but an agitation got up by the trade union, headed by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, stopped it, though the Government and the board were willing. I have written so far to endeavour to point out the effect of the presence of Asiatics in a European colony, all of which has come under my personal observation, and 1 maintain that it is utter nonsense to contend that the case would be any different with the Chinese. 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