THE CHINESE PROBLEM

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 January 1927, Page 4

THE CHINESE PROBLEM

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The above problem is causing quite a lot of tAought and tact and judgment on the part of the British Government .and other countries concerned. But the problem that also takes understanding is the fact that while Britain is on the verge of. hostilities we find Chinese shops being patronised as freely as ever. Now, sir,while not attempting to stir up strife, 1 was in Hawera on Saturday evening and was astonished to find on, several occasions during the evening, these shops absolutely full of British subjects, while the British shops did a freeze in comparison. Do not the people ever stop to think? The rather outspoken anti-British statement, made by a highly educated Chinaman in Wellington, surely gives room for thought, although in some quarters it has been clumsily contradicted. Britishers can grow vegetables, sell fruit and do laundry work, therefore why not patronise Britishers, at least while the war-like atmosphere hangs so' thickly overhead. It is not only the moderate class of people who are guilty of this breach of British prestige, for there are some of your most -respected citizens and influential country men, who I am asham>l to say are also among the guilty. Trusting this short note will read with interest and have the effect to make the unwary think.—l am., etc., LOYAL. BRITISHER.