A DUNIDAL CHINA MERCHANT INTERVIEWED

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 263, 12 May 1888, Page 3

A DUNIDAL CHINA MERCHANT INTERVIEWED

l>\ \i ni\ M.i\ <\ i'n.'lll'; W.Ull'l M|lUl\ \«'->ti 1(1,1 \ lIIUMMH^, St>\\ I fo\ , ,i \\ ( [1 kIIOW II ( 'llilHX 1 UH 1 ( Il.Ul! . - ml that lv dul not think ihui v,i-.ui\ likelihood ai i ku r j,o i ,n,uia(nm tuun the F!oW01\ i..111'l (o I 111-- < ol'>ll\ i !l- U\l-OI!-foi holding lli.it opinion wimc, hi thehi~t pl.u c, t ha'. In % had no ,id\iee> th.il !i .i deacon' u.i^ < mi! t nipiated, and i( \\ )-■ unhki !> thai -veil a tiling would happen without hi^ hcaiinu iiin 1 ; iiboiil. it : '-ocondly, thai, tlicio ua.^ no inducement for the C iniu'^r to conn line iii louo. !n !!it {{,\^ \\ lion ( lie ,uold licit k -\\ c\r in iuil --w inn liuMc \\<oi\ i') he Luuenini) licif- ol ( 'hinaincii at \nos\, C'.iuli <»»ia, Waipon and ( v hun n^tow v, ,md ni;\m otheis aboul all o\ii lix dij; »mi;s ; Imt. fhev oi kiirj,^ aiti t lu ->c pI.K c■> had ( iM-ud (o |)io\ide piolilahle v\n ployinonl ioi (lie ChinoM 1 , and (he in;i)oii(,> had let( the counliy loi i^ood. "A{, W.npoii alone," j-,ikl Mi .Sia\ Hoy, " ( iieujused to he about. (,wo t.houmikl ( hinanien \> lun^old was lieing '4ot, hut now \ou would lind onl.y .some 60 ot ni\ conn! M men , it, woiLMkmc ' The edettol unp(isin«; a poll ta 1 - Mouki doulM.le^-^ bv, to keep av, ay irany Cliinc-i 1 who nujjht. olherwiMMome heie. " "Neatly all (Jie men who come herclrom Chinn," added n\\ inioimanl., "aieiavmcis doni the eoun(i,v d^t-viets of Ccinlou, men ot eaiehd habits, and %\ho would nol think ot out foi New Zealand unless they hud closi on l"50 to lav on!,. They would icekon that t ho tlip would cost Uiem hilly that, amounfi. The pa»a<_:e money would, lou^hly *pcakinu\ come Lo about C2O ; then Ihcvo is the poll In\, CIO, and you won't cat eh I he-^e men landing heie wit lion t a penny jn tluur jioekcth. Thoy know that. i.hey' will not, Imd a\oi k diiccily Ihe^ land, iinrl lh<^ it, will 00-( them soinothinfi to <^ot up eounti y, .md I hoy will litni^ io In; ]iro- ! vuUd with a little leady inouev to la^t | them until the,\ ;^et .started to work. You remember yoiu correbpon-

dent) tba-t when Lhrcc .shiploads oi Chmoho landed in Dunedin about the s-uno time sonic yeai s u^o all the passengers avcvc out of Ihi'iiedin and on their way to the oountiy fiy wa^^m in less than a week, ana i ho.io men wcic oi the »!imo cla~>s a 1 - thoso thai have sinei .mixed. '1 he majority ot them jret out oi town an soon a-i they can, and aio piovidt d nil h mean* to <;o \vheio I he,) have a eh.mee oi m ttl.n^ in. Vcs, I think the poll la\ will keep many ol tho-r people fioin eomiujj; heie, lor they <ant .I'ioid U) \y,\) il ' Mi Sew Hoy • 011liinud tli.it in his opinion ihe enloicu.ieul, ol this poll t,i\ would lead 10 tiouhh. ('•!)(. nn (u.ity li^fht^ wcic imposed on China \<y the K.i^h -h < iovei niik'il, and (he dun. Hiding ol a poll ta\ by the < o:onf<-> u.^a in each oi the .I^l < cnx-nt cntcnd into between I, he bwn eouuli m>. loi \shi. J) bn^l.inn nii<iht bi heid u^pon^ible < \ ( n ii> thr c\l"iii oi «i (J.inn by Ihe Chinese j CoMMimcni toi an tin n oi 1 he money thus p.ud li\ Ihe ( him y e munimarl-. i ( iii^ii-.h nien weic ti(.it( d well in Hun. 1, and could 4oan\ \.lhml tluy ilk' d, whu n was .1 pii\iX <+< iioLu't 01 ded looihe, n.-l ion,-, and it v.i-> not n;J,I. in <he lace of tlu^ < onsideration, | 'o, thl colonies lo inal the rhin^i, as in- A 111 1 ud' 1 - "\\ eie m\ eounl I\nn n a di-oidei ly [ lo! 01 nun who ihe •■olonn - tiouble, (he ClunoM n\\\ hoi it ii '•> mi'^ht ho eom[ilumd lo b\ the colonit- ; but whathaiin .ue tin Chinese doinjj .' and a-- toth(,u\ t li.it lhe\ b\c dieapei than i^uiopLan^, 1 hat 1-. ,1 mi-»t.dv< wliK h should bt, eonii.idu.Lcd. A-k the -toiekiopei, the liu(f'i(i. 01 tin bake), ,tf <in> pi tec w hoi c the ( luiifM h,i\( .-(.tth'l down, whethu tin Chin 1111011 .ue not eu tomeis. '.up wdl (■<■ u li.it, 1 hoie people; !>u( don t ,\-k (he holelkxeper, ' added Mr Sew !io\ with a l.ui'jh, '' ioi he wili not j.'i\ c my ( ounli vnu n .1 nan c. Tin \ <ne not Ins b.'-L ( ii-lomoi-. Many ot \h>: ( him -< who aie not eiiM.i^< d at mining lind that the\ h,i\eall then woik to do to ni.iki* (in!, hum t As an ii^tanee he ni'-ntjoned that aboni a hundiod of them wen at piesent \\oikin<x some tlnce mdeiiom <-oie. and t\ii\ man had to pay 2s 6d a week lo the he< holdei loi ihe l'i^lit to .hi,. I