INSULT ON CHINESE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1932, Page 6

INSULT ON CHINESE

- —~ . i “GROSSLY LIBELLOUS - • ./FETiTroN.” STATEMENT -RESENTED. i, / :-' November 7. 1 A reply has been issued by Chinese residents of New’Zealand to a petition j recently presented to Parliament urg-I ,ing the re'patri&tibn of Chinese. j The reply states that the petition is J calculated to ioflaihe the hiiii'ds of New j Zeafenddr's Against Chirftee, is an insult, hot ‘only to Cllihesh Nationals, but ■ a ISO to sprang. The/internati6hhi code, recognises that, Ohfehation bears , am.obligation to to see that 4 natnWrais rivithmfitis shores ar&Aiot stibJect to'htilhiliatioh arid that the nation itself is hob insulted. ' ,( Such a yi'eiati'o'n of the cOirtmon deeencies which'should subsist nations will inevitably'have a repercussion that will he visited hecesSarilv upon British nationals residing within the Republic of China. It is to the advantage'of New ‘Zealand'that trade relations with China should be cultivated and. increased, but if intolerable insults are, continued the dignity of the Chinese nation would compel it to take steps to ostracise ‘ New Zealand traders from commercial intercourse. MONEY SENT TO CHINA.

“According to the'Year Hook, there a re-only £BSO Chinese, and : 1166 Indians ih the beminian.' \lt 'is erroneous > state that Chinese send, on the average,' £l’()0 to relations in China. The average js less than 50 per cent of that amount, and the money is-'seWfe'- to maintain the families and relations of Chinese residing in New. Zealand. The money would n'ot be sent if the Nov Zealand Government allowed the wives and families of Chinese to conio to the Dominion. The. Chinese in New Zealand are draWn from the professional, agricultural, industrial and merchant classes, and to describe them as anything but highly respectable is false and insulting. ° IV is ' mendacious to say that the living conditions of Chinese are insanitary. The allegations of immorality are grossly libellous, nd th » Cnu'ete are 'Satisfied that, reference to the Commissioner of Police would nail the lie to the mast. They trust that this will be the last tihie wlien nationals of a country to which they Vrj 71’ond of belong to will he visited..