PUBLIC OPINION

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11437, 6 February 1923, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION

INSULTS TO CHINESE. (To the Editor, “N.Z. Times.”) Sir, —Sorry to barge in again, but it ia your fault, you should not have published the telegram (with footnote) under the heading "Poll Tax” in your issue of Saturday morning. Not very nide, is it? Writing on the wall and all that sort of thing. I suppose my opposite number will coolly and deliberately! draw his trusty fountain pen and have another pot shot at me. May I suggest that this would be waste of good ammunition, as I have my fingers crossed, hub rather let him re-read mv letter published in vour issue of January 20th; it will bear re-reading, it is prophetic. The old order changeth truly indeed, and the biggest change in history ia not so very far off if we measure time as Ewo did in one of his letters when he wrote ‘‘not soi very long ago, 1860 to be exact.” Canada is going to remove the Poll Tax on Chinese? Why? If New Zealand does not in due season follow suit, what then? The answer of course, may be a lemon, but beneath a rather flippant manner ’wisdom sometimes lurks, just as the strawberry jam of our nursery days was not unknown to conceal artfully the detested Gregory Powder. MAJOR FA.RN KWAI. (This correspondence is closed.—Editor,' ,r N.Z. Times.”)