A resident of Otaki, commenting upon the fact that the Chinese are gradually utilising evc-ry vacant plot in the town, remarked to a newspaper representative that if the Maori people only possessed the desire for steady industry and the same frugal mode of living shown by the Celestial, they would now have been the aristocracy of this counti?.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16422, 16 January 1919, Page 8
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58Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 Press, Volume LV, Issue 16422, 16 January 1919, Page 8
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