INFLUX OF ASIATICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17339, 10 December 1919, Page 9

INFLUX OF ASIATICS.

CHINESE AND HINDOOS. ARRIVALS AT AUCKLAND. / TOTAL OF 257 THIS YEAR. Twenty-five Indians and fifteen Chinese arrived from Sydney by the Maheno on ; Monday. This makes a total of 257 Indians and Chinese who have arrived at Auckland from overseas since last January. Chinese passengers to New Zealand can come only in limited numbers, as the Immigration Act provides that only one Chinese for every 200 tons net register ■will be allowed to land from overseas passenger steamers. Any number of Hindoo passengers may be carried, as they are not prohibited emigrants if they can pass the education test. Among the Chinese who landed from the Maheno were two females. One has come to Auckland to join her husband, and the other to marry a Chinese resident here. The marriage ceremony w:u; carried out yesterday before the Registrar of Marriages. The second woman was remarried to her husband according to Christian ceremony. RETURNED SOLDIERS* PROTEST. IMMEDIATE STEPS URGED. The great influx of Chinamen and Hindoos to New Zealand during the past lew montlis formed the subject of a strong protest by the Auckland Ketuxned Soidiera' .Association Executive last evening. Mr. J. Melling, who introduced the subject, said the position was getting very serious, and .it was time that something was done to stop the influx. The Hindoo did not confine his labours to banana sel.ing; he was now going to the country and taking up hold.ngs, which was detrimental to both the returned soldier and the general public. " And there is no doubt that some employers," said Mr. Melling, " prefer the cheap labour that the coloured immigrant offers." " We ought to keep continually urging for a White New Zealand," said Mr. T. Long. " That was one of the planks in the original political platform of the Returned Soldiers' Association." He said he knew of a school in Fiji where a cul tured Hindoo, for a moderate fee, trainee his pupils for the education test. . He asserted that a certain small section of the employers of New Zealand encouraged the introduction of coloured labour, and cited as an instance, an advertisement in I which a man required a number of Hindoos to engage on a contract. ! After further discussion a resolution Was '■■ carried unanimously that the association | views with alarm the influx of Chinamen i and Hindoos from the Pacific Islands and | direct from their native lands into New Zealand, and urges upon the _ Government ', the urgent necessity for taking steps to I prevent it.