HINDU AGGRESSION
A FACTOR IN LOCAL FRUIT TRADE.
Slowly but surely the Hindu, in increasing numbers, is pushing his way i,do new avenues of trade Ten years ago the appearance of a Hindu ini th streets of the Empire City was a novelty -to-day he is taken just as much as a matter of coarse as the Chinaman, b there is one essential difference in his life habit. Tho Chinaman works hard to save enough to return to his own country, but the Hindu has no such ambition. He commenced humbly enough, ns a gatherer of unconsidered trifles—empty bottles, jars, scrap zinc, lead. co PPer, etc But. experience has taught him many things. He now vies with me Chinaman in bidding daily nt the market, for the city’s supply of first to be sold in barrows nt sheet corners, but now vending the same from door to door, ns the Chinaman used to do a quarter of a century ago.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 223, 15 June 1921, Page 5
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160HINDU AGGRESSION A FACTOR IN LOCAL FRUIT TRADE. Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 223, 15 June 1921, Page 5
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