CHINESE FRUITERERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17837, 4 May 1926, Page 1

CHINESE FRUITERERS.

To the Editor. Sir, —Your correspondent, “Live and Let Live ” continually prates about tlie law-abiding Chinese, whereas one can hardly pick up a paper without reading Police Court cases of Chinamen who have been caught flouting the law’s of the country. When we consider the cunning, wily nature of the Chinese, it is only fair to assume that much misses the official eve- “ Live and Let Live ” has hold of the wrong end of the stick altogether. A Chinaman named G. Ah Chang wrote a most insolent letter to the “ Star,” and I merely replied to'his tirade against the whites. Flis next letter was couched in a different tone altogether. He whined about persecutors and so on. If the Chinese are such desirable and law-abiding citizens, I would ask “ Live and Let Live ” why the Government is excluding them from New Zealand. I quite admit your correspondent’s sincerity and respect him for it. The Chinese may be. all right growing vegetables, but when they enter into competition with white men and women in shops, they should be made to conform strictly to the w’hite man’s standard of living, morality and cleanliness, and to his hours of work, etc. In a fair-sized southern town I was in, the Chinese tried to get a footing and opened a shop. Women who were seen going into the shop were slighted by their more patriotic neighbours, however, and the Chinese mepace was soon a thing of the past in that town.

Your correspondent, “ Not One Eyed has the unbounded audacity to ask me to apologise for referring to a matter which is public property, viz., the fact, that a Chinaman was sued last week for maintenance of an illegitimate child. I should state that unless he alters his unpatriotic attitude he himself should be made to apologise to every respectable white man and woman in the communitv.— I am, etc.. A WHITE NEW ZEALAND.