CHINESE CONSUL
COJjI^ENT,vPN FJNGER, PRINT SCHEME. (Per Press Association—Copyright). WELLINGTON, April 30. With, regard to the fruit and vegetables committees’ suggestion that thumb prints of Chinese and other Asiatics engaged in the fruit and yegtuble trade should be taken to simplify identification, the Chinese Consul, Feng Wang, said to the “Post’’ representative, “the committee actually re? commend to impose on my countrymen who are residents in this fair Dominion, an act which in ail civilised countries is associated only with crime, but I have not the slightest doubt that the New Zealand Government will not even oonsidar the committee’s suggestion, because it is must unfriendly to China and is contrary to the British sense of fair play.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1937, Page 5
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