CHINESE IN NEW ZEALAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14783, 16 March 1910, Page 6

CHINESE IN NEW ZEALAND

(From Oub Own Correspondent.)' WELLINGTON, March 15. . ••With the advent of the Consul : for:' China and his. staff many Wellington ■'. people have come to change their ideas ' \ very considerably about the Chinese as, ' • 'a - nation and their ability as a'people," '.The-impression given by the,' Consul; his bright and intellectual wife, and his'.secre-..•■' • tary, has been a decidedly' favourable one. ..-The;secretary (Mr T. H. Shah) has', just prepared an interesting Anglo-Chinese •' calendar for 1910-11, printed in bothChinese and English. It shows (says the ' Post)'the Chineso festivals and the New Zealand bank holidays, of which there are ' 110 fewer than 22 days. •Of these eight '■'■ bnly ..are observed in the Chinese. Empire', and they include the birthdays of. iho. ' Emperor, Empress Dowager, and,.of ;Cqn- ~, fucius, and the summer and.winter sol:',. slice (or longest and shortest.days).-.Thex numbers of Chinese in counties;'.cities, ;>; and boroughs.as on' April 29, ; 1906, the latest figures available; are also shown, together with the total'population's of the — •" divisions named. A map showing the dis— ' ' tribu.tion of.the Chinese in New Zealand' is also given." The Chinese in ' the : foii'r " " : big centres were as . follow :—Auckland,' i 13;.. Christehurcli, 61; Wellington. .550; . Duncdin, 218. Tliefe were 1385 Chinese all told in : the Dominion at the.last cen- .' sus. In Rotorua County, there was. bul •' one Chinese, and in 51 counties there were-. .. t none. Mr' 1 Shah has.added a'universal :•■■ time indicator, showing' what o'clock it' is at any given hour in New Zealand in ' places so far remote as-Alien, Tokio, ami ' ' Pernambuco. The Chinese text, Which — is'wonderfully neat, is the handiwork of"'" Mr Shah himself. The calendar has been prepared for the Chinese Association of Wellington.