AGGRESSIVE INDIANS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 278, 4 November 1924, Page 3

AGGRESSIVE INDIANS.

FARMING AT TAUMABUNUI. I A VISITOR’S IMPRESSIONS. Wanganui, Nov. 1. A professional man from Calcutta ■ who is spending a holiday in New Zea- I hind, in conversation with a reporter here stated that on the way down from 1 Auckland he called' Taumarunui, < where he understood a large number of ’ Indians were employed farming, labour- I ing, etc. He had made up his mind not to speak to any of the race while in New Zealand, but at the request of some relatives, spoke to three of 1 them- He addressed them in their 1 language and on terms of equality, and 1 said he was unprepared for the reply < he received. They were most insolent. « He considers they are of the type of Punjabi, on which the door should be closed in New Zealand. Before leaving he intends to have a chat with the Premier and give him his impressions. This was the class of Indian that was t responsible for a good deal of the dis- e satisfaction in India. t Referring to Gandhi, the visitor said t he could no more influence the whole i of India than one man could rule over c Che whole_of Europe. Por instance, in India there were thirty to forty differ, k ent languages, approximately 250 dialects, and about 20000 different sects. \ To take one man from the north and t place him in the south he would just i feel as much lost as a person from Eng- c land dumped down in Italy. Where t the rajahs ruled there was no trouble, g The word of the rajah was law, they represented one-third of India, and j there was never likely to be any rising e amongst these people as they were c loyal subjects. c