THE INSISTENT JAP

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6315, 16 September 1907, Page 9

THE INSISTENT JAP

Our brown ally is gaining. ground in. Australia. There are 4000 in the northern part of Australia and, after .calm consideration, 4000 does not seem to b«> an overwhelming number, especially if one considers that the still more insistent Chinese is in Australia in far greater proportion. The Jap is largely ©n- t gaged in the pearl diving business in Queensland, and there are some Jap traders in the Northern territory and - even in the sandv wastes of Western Australia. The Chinese, however, "ia everywhere within that broad country. He has a penchant for herding together/ The Jap is not eo gregarious. Whole colonies of Chinese are to be found in many places throughout the Common- ' wealth and in these colonies, which, unfortunately the curious white man invades to his ultimate sorrow, the cus- ] toms of ancient China still prevail. Aa ' an example there is a' considerable Chi- \ settlement in Hay, New South TfVales, and it is not evident that its , settlers are engaged-in any very strenuous occupations. They are in fact mere finding the whites easy victims. On the whole the insistent Jap is hardly to be distinguished from the on the knuckles, or, as a gentle sub tionably our gallant allies seeing in Australia a land of greater promise than the circumscribed ono they leave, wil cajefully cultivate •an immigration trade that will relieve a congestion in that is already responsible for -many empty brown interiors.-