ORIENTAL INFLUX.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 104, 1 May 1920, Page 14

ORIENTAL INFLUX.

11 (To llse Kilitor.i "\ Sir—Your ■ correspondent,. AY. F. R. * Thompson mentions that there is an ' organisation among-st the Orients here j to further the immigration of their ' compatriots from t-he:r jre?p< v c~tive countries. This is all too true. Many of the ' Chinese, more or less well-to-do, thinking f of a relative, or friend liv : ng in China, j wishing to emigrate to Xew Zml.ind,| ' adopt tlie following a.vstem. The relative-* knows that before any Chinaman from his native country is t allowed to land. l lio must (1) pa-v; an educational te*t 1 of a hundred English word*, picked out, * at random by an officer of the Customs aiul (2) if able to pai=s the te-t imposed, to pay a £ 100 i»oll tax. lie M>nd« sufficient money to China io his confederate to enter one of the manylγ '"schools" which purport to give full i instruction in the English language. Since the boom cf onii?ration ha» awakened many Orients in t'iiina, scores of these have on?nel up. After' the "con" hue hp.d a smattering instruction up to the fourth standard reader. his "com" in iXew Zealand forwards the fare to him. lie eventua'lv sufves nj Xew Zealand, duly pocwea the u-.-t, and' the poll tax of £100 is paid up. and tliej new chum lands. Over 300 ha.ye arrivedj at various porte in Xew Zealand during' the la*t three months. Many of these' have come under a system of slavery. Each of these will have to work for their' financier four or five veara for nothing] till their debt is clearod. TCythey work . for another person, the Orient financier will see that he gets the wages from the! "new chum." Hut the pity of it is that', the majority of the«e new arrivals have no work. Just take a look round; 'Hainins Street. "Wellington, or 01-e ''Chinatown" in Auckland, and you will , see shoals of them. If the immigration, of these undesirables is not promptly dealt -with, what a problem it will be in two vears!—l am, etc., ANTI-ASIA, j