A CHINESE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1930, Page 6

A CHINESE MARKET.

I understand that the Auckland Harbour Board has given, or is about to give, a- fifty years' lease of certain lands within the city of Auckland to a Chinese company, which is about to bo registered, for the purpose of a vegetable market. J. consider that the board has shown a grave error of judgment. It i« inflicting not only on the present and coming generation but on posterity a "barnacle," an incubus, that will be difficult to remove. To grant leases of land, or to sell freehold to Asiatics, is a dangerous precedent. It is to be trusted that before the proposed company is registered the Harbour Board will reconsider its decision and cancel the lease before it i≤ too late; incidentally, it is surely time thai British market gardeners, greengrocers and fruiterers woke to the situation and organised on sound lines. Evidently many of the public require educating to buy" British, and vendors should endeavour to "dreee" their shops more attractively. L.E.C. The establishment of a Chinese market in Auckland will rediico the white labour market and throw many storemen, carriers and other workers out of employment, Chinese taking their places. Surely Government action should be taken to prevent this Chinese company's formation, and, further, Asiatics should be repatriated. This peaceful penetration has been permitted long enough. The market company 'formation is only another step towards absorption of all businesses and industries by Asiatics. OUK OWN FIRST.