ALIENS IN HAWAII

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19505, 5 February 1926, Page 11

ALIENS IN HAWAII

THE PROBLEM OF LABOUR NUMBER OF JAPANESE. “Hawaii is faced with a great problem involving alien labour,” stated Sir William Mcßeth, of Melbourne. Sir William, who is chairman of the commissioners of the State Savings Bank of Victoria and chairman of the National Union of Victoria, has been on a holiday trip to Honolulu. “The Japanese are simply swarming on the island.” Sir William said. “Out of a population of 150.000, the Japanese number 120,000. While the many other coloured races inter-marry, the Japanese seem to keep to themselves, and are a very strong factor. Coloured peoples are now prevented by legislat.ou from entering Honolulu, and although it has not been felt yet this will have a great effect upon labour. When the Japanese get some money they leave the sugar and pineapple plantations and go into busines. Many of them can afford to let their sons attend the universities, and I am afraid there will no* 1 c enough positions to take them. The head waiter of one of the best hotels at Honolulu is a Japanese and his son is at the university. “Thu trouble will come when the coloured peoples leave the land, and there is io: enough labour for the plantations. No aliens can now be poured into the island to take the places of those who leave, the plantations. Sir William said it was evident the Japanese, intended to make themselves strong on the island. Since the Act eame into force the birth rate had increased. Hawaii would have a hard 'ask in enforcing the Act and maintaining the export of sugar and pineapples. “I was in Honolulu 20 years ago and ten years ago,’’ Sir William said. “It has grown immensely am] to my mind is one of the best holiday resorts to be found anywhere. ’ ’