INFLUX OF CHINESE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3540, 30 July 1920, Page 3

INFLUX OF CHINESE.

"NOMINATED IMMIGRANTS,” Rather a now light is thrown on the j Chinese question when it is realised 1 that the four hundred and odd Chin- ■ ese who have landed in Auckland j since the beginning of the year are | something in the nature of “nominatj ed immigrants/' At least ninetynine i out of every hundred cf them are said ; to have relatives in the Dominion—a father, a brother, or perhaps son.e more distant . connexion—who sent home to China the joyful new s of the happy hunting ground That was to be found at this end of ilie Pacific Ocean. A prominent Auckland Chinese citizen talkig about the matter the otlur j moring, indicated that the newcomers were not a haphazard lot of Chinamen in search of adventure. They had nearly all of them heard about the country from their relatives here, amt knew exactly the sort cf place and work they could expect. Discussing the question of the poll-tax. he 'said the Chinese residents quite approved of it being a substantial one of £loo.’ as that hurdle would naturally tend to ensure that only the better class of workmen would take the risk of coming into the country, , knowing that they would have to work hard to pay back the tax if they borrowed it. Without wishing to be invidious, he compared the class of Chinamen in New Zealand with certain other coloured immigrants who, he said, were not at all of the same stamn.