NO DEPRESSION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 19, 15 September 1931, Page 5

NO DEPRESSION

ASIASTie PROBLEM IN BUSY • AND PUZZLED HAWAII'. VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. When a visitor to Rotorua from Honolulu was asked yesterday if the Hawaiian Islands shared with the rest of the world the universal anxiety and depression, he replied that he did not kppw of § siqgle prpblem that was exercising the ttiind of the Hawaiian Government or giving rise to unrest. For "a time the influx of Japanese and Chinese haJ pcca^iqned herjpus puSgjylhgs and an Asiatic peril was" talked of. This difficulty, however, had happily solved itself . A?} Asiatic Exclusion Aef similar tp that enforced on the mainland was rapidly carried out and the increase of Asiatics in the Islands was made up entirely of native born. They proyed loyal and exemplary citizens. Asiatic Percentage. Japanese, Chinese and Hawaians comprise 80 per cent. of the graudates of the University of Hawaii and of Senior High School pupils, 90 per cent. who pass the higher • examinations are of Asiatic or native extraption. Hpyr to absorb sp largg a pror portiop. qf highly competent university graduates and matriculated students after leaving school presented a great difficulty. They had to a Iqrge* jextent crpwded oii| the American born and 'preated an unem--plqymept problem which wa$ solved by ypung American born ahd educatba iii Jhe Ha^yaiiap group prgsging over to the mainland. The Hawaiian Government made it very clear that no one should come to the Islands in expectation of finding work. None was to be had, but there was no business depression as it is understood here.