SINISTER ASPECT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 13 July 1929, Page 7

SINISTER ASPECT

CHINESE AND MAORIS " NATIVE WOMEN AT MARKET " r GARDENS REVELATIONS . IN AUCKLAN&whI (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, That canvassing was’being catried but”. . in the Auckland province for- young' Maori women to accept employment-ii'i Chinese market gardens, was the-re-*'-*;-'-' markable statement made at a Meeting v ; of the Te Akarana Maori Associations Mr George Graham, the president",'"’ said that in Asiatic cultivations--near■:=<* Auckland at the present time,- aP -least 54 young Maori women .were , living ;' in the Chinese quarters. “In the past ;A two months we have had brought before, our notice eleven definite cases «of iC), unfortunate results where - our ..young 1r - : - uative women have consorted with Chinese." . It was pointed out that the -drift 'of- ; young native women into such: employ-.-L ment was due, to 1 some extent, fo'eco-'-tiomic pressure, but . there wasMiow sinister aspect in the efforts to induce the young women to leave their .home settlements. 'i Supporting representations it- has.*l-.« - ready made to the Government on the problem, the association decided • that ,t. the only remedy was- the complete :-1 prohibition of- the Asiatic as an -immi- r - grant to New Zealand, and a policy. A' tending to eliminate the Asiatic "as-an ' ’ element in the Dominion’s population;