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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1921, Page 3

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Reporting to the executive of the N.Z.It.S.A. oil llie Asiatic question, th,. Secretary (Mr .1. Bowl said lie had ascertained from the (lovernment Statistician that the number of Chinese in New Zealand at March Hist last was 341?.", ; there were also 7"2G Hindus in the Dominion. Mr Dow added that, since the immigration restrictions were imposed in Hf'dlf. according to the figures supplied to him. they had lad very satisfactory results. An ingenious shingle-conveyor, built for the Christchurch Tramway Board hv a local firm, was used for the first time in tjie board's pit at Soekbnni on Wednesday (says an exchange). 'I lie apparatus, which has a reach ol Wilt, from the centre upon which it is pivoted, feeds the shingle from the ground level into trucks by mentis ol an eightplv plain rubber licit, 18in. wide. ’lbis belt runs over a series of curved cleats, and forms a continuously moving trough, in which the material is carried. The men who feed it- are not required to lift the shingle iiimiii their shovels, as formerly, and as a consequence two men can now do the work which six did before. Tile .saving in wages is about t'JD a week. Owing (-:> the long reach of the conveyor, loss moving of trucks, and less track-laving are requirt'd. This is expected to help the working of the pit a; great deal, j During the past twelve months there I has been a marked increase in AurkI land (says the Auckland “Star”) in j tli,. number of these one or two-men laundries, with the Ah or the lee, , etc. sign over the lintel. On the other hand, the number of F.uropeans employed in laundries has decreased during the same period. As a mutter ol filet, one white person did start a laundrv in Auckland within the twelve month, hut after a three weeks’ experiment the shutters went up. It was hopeless trying to compote against the yellow man. The seatiered ( hinnmau —there is oiq. every lew yards, m> to speak, in the environs of the city have a. big advantage over the largo European laundries in the matter of delivery. The Chinaman can keep open in the evening, so it is an easy j matter for 111,, householder to slip round alter work, or even after tea for his washing. In this country the average person is not burdened with a too extensive wardrobe of underwear, * and the inconvenience caused by noil j delivery is not to lie conceived hv; people who are better off, or who perhaps ' are more thrifty. The 'Europe an latmj dry is bound by rulos and regulations, I rmd must rlose at five o’clock.