CHINESE GARDENERS.
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, this day. At a meeting of a recently- formed Auckland Market Gardeners' Associa;tion, held last evening at Avondale, it was decided to forward a petition to the Government, requesting that the Prime Minister's proposals that prison labor be used in the production of vegetables on a State-owned farm be hot given effect to, as they were sure that when Sir Joseph Ward made the suggestion he was not aware that of the vegetables sold in Auckland a large quantity -were grown by white laboiv It was also resolved to forward ii letter to the Inspector of Police drawing his attention to the Chinese working in their gardens on Sundays.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11250, 15 April 1908, Page 5
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115CHINESE GARDENERS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11250, 15 April 1908, Page 5
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