The Chinese Invasion.
THE FURNITURE TRADF. IN MELBOURNE. (Per Press Association.) Melbourne, August 21. The A^e, iu urging the necessity for legislation in connection with the Chinese cabinet-making trade, declares that at present there are not 50 cabinetmakers at work in Melbourne, while fully 500 Chinese are busily engaged night and day, and in niauy cases on Sundays. The writer says thafc fully 80 per cent of the furniture sold in the city comes from the Chinese dens, and the European middlemen give fullest encouragement to this trade, as by buying cheap Chinese furniture and selling it as European they derive fat profits. Thus the trail of the Chinaman is over nearly every furnished house in Melbourne.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 47, 23 August 1895, Page 2
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117The Chinese Invasion. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 47, 23 August 1895, Page 2
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