In connection with Palmerston North's electric scheme it is now proposed that three 350 B.H.P. engines and one 700---h.p. gas plant be installed at an estimated cost of £50,000. The competition of Chinese against returned soldiers in the fruit business has been discussed by the Canterbury Repatriation Board, and at n meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Association, the following motion was passed : "That this meeting deplores the fact that a white man should see fit to let his shop to Chinamen to open a fruit business, in direct opposition to two returned soldiers already doing business in Christchurch." *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15041, 16 October 1919, Page 3
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98Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15041, 16 October 1919, Page 3
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