THUMB PRINTS
CHINESE CONSUL’S OBJECTION
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WELLINGTON, April 130,
In discussion of the fruit and vegetable committee’s suggestion that thumb-prints of Chinese and other Asiatics engaged in the fruit and vegetable trade should be taken to simplify identification, the Chinese Consul, Mr Feng Wang, said to-day.
“The committee actually recommended to impose on my countrymen resident in this fair Dominion an act which in all civilised countries is associated only with crime, but I have not the slightest doubt that the Mew Zealand Government will not even consider the committee’s suggestion, because it is most unfriendly to China and is contrary to the British sense of fair play.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1937, Page 3
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