HINDUS INDIGNANT

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1932, Page 6

HINDUS INDIGNANT

BARROW MEN IN WELLINGTON

OBJIJcTIbNS TO REGULATIONS

| WELLINGTON, July 14. For gome days past, Hindu street bar-ribw : men have not been operating | in/Ahe streets. Some -have secured shops owing to the low rents now pro- ( vailing.i At Itpn;auction of afreet stall' stands recently, • only one was sold, and that to a white man. ] . The Hindus^’(object strongly t-o the conditions attaching to the new - bylaw/ wlffch comes into force! on August 1 and,! considering that. they were being treated decided not to bid ■ for stall* -at all. On© Hindu protested that the new ordinance was a bad by-law. While Chinese shopkeepers were allowed to make displays outside their shop win-' dows, the by-law was going to prevent barrow men from -doing so. If Hindus wer© not -allowed to 'Spread oub their stock in tihe'way they did, why, it was asked, should Chinee© shopkeepers bs ii-UAwed to make shelf and box displays olvtfeide their shop doors and windows. h'K'The matter' has been considered by the By-laws Committee, but,, as the regulations were founded on recommendations m-ade by the Healoh Committee the By-laws’ Committee has referred the matter to that-, committee with certain recommend-atiaihs of an '•■ariielioratory. oharqater.