MIGRATION QUESTION
ENTRY OF JAPANESE
EXPERIENCE
"The suggestion that 5.000,000 Japanese should be brought to New Zealand to take up land, or for any other purpose, is. to my mind, an idiotic one. having regard to what has happened in the United States," said Mr. Vern 1.5. Arnold, a member of thi teaching stall' of the Denver High School, Colorado, who is at present touring the Dominion, in an interview in Christchureh. "The Japanese problem in the United Slates to-day is a very grave one, indeed,'' said (Mr. Arnold. "For many years the Japanese were allowed to enter the country, but to-day they are prohibited. The reason is that we have learned that East is East and West is West. "Especially in California the matter is giving Americans something to think a'bout, for there is concentrated the vast majority of the Japanese people in the United States. There the Japanese have taken up large tracts of land for farming. They have tied up most of the fruitgrowing industry, leaving the white man little or no chance in competi-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19693, 27 July 1938, Page 8
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178MIGRATION QUESTION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19693, 27 July 1938, Page 8
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