THE CHINESE INVASION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13746, 11 May 1908, Page 6

THE CHINESE INVASION.

i ACTION IN SYDNEY. PROBLEM TO BE GR APPLED WITH. [FROM OUR own • CORRESPONDENT.] Sydney, May 6. From the attitude adopted by the municipal councils of various districts in South Sydney, .the conclusion might be drawn that Chinese are hostile to., habits of cleanliness. Their rapidly increasing num- , ber in that part of this city is arousing great indignation amongst the while residents ; and by way of-discouraging their Celestial brethren from continuing in their, midst, and in the hope of preventing others from coming, the Waterloo Council has decided to make it as unpleasant as possible for them, by enforcing the sanitary regulations. . The North Botany aldermen have just awakened to the fact- that their territory is being invaded by the undesirables, and immediately on the realisation of this fact a special meeting was held by the Council, for the purpose ot 1 discussing the situation. After much consideration it was decided, "That a conference of the South Sydney municipal councils,, together with the. members for the district, Federal and State, be held, with a view to taking ' some effective steps to cope, with the Chinese arrivals in the district." " A date will .' be fixed as soon as possible,' and in the meantime—probably with a . view to im- " mediately beginning the work of ridding ' the district of the foreigners, the Council ' has decided to'rigidly enforce the sanitary j. regulations, and has even hinted that members will personally supervise the un- '« dertaking. Bitter complaints are made of ' unfair competition on the part of the Chinese furniture makers, who work till l.ate ill the night, and, it is stated, all dayon Sundays, the European tradesman being thus placed at a serious disadvantage; Unfortunately, the man from whom the Chinese trader finds his chief support is, as a. rule, the artisan who, having secured to himself by agitation decent hours and reasonable rates of pay in bis own calling, is too selfish to assist his fellow-European , ! in some other walk of life to defeat the i sweater and the Asiatic. I--- 1 - . : A WORD OF WARNING. ' [by telegraph.—own CORRESPONDENT.] j ' , Wellington, Sunday. ■ Writing on April 4; to a-member of the Maroawatu Standard staff, Mr. Harry Too- .; good, who was, a candidate for a- Christ- ; church seat ati last general election and . | "who is now 'in the employ of a large engi- ! neering firm at' Rangoon, Burma, empluir , lj sises the view he formerly expressed if" [ i garding Chinese' immigration. ' Mr. Too,'i good says: "Although."! must confess that i the Chinese are, as a rule, most orderly and I law-abiding, you must--not forget that they , are to be kept out of New Zealand at l' any cost. I want' to impress' 1 on you that 1 am more and more convinced that we : must- not have them in New Zealand. They would run us oft our feet. They would ■ buy and sell us in our markets. They . could get over almost any difficulty, such ■ as a- fair educational test. We don't know i the Chinese in New Zealand; we have never touched the question yet. A few agriculturists and farmers have drifted over and made us think a bit, but the Britishborn Chinese are the men to watch, and they are quite different- men from what .we have been used to."