CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 214, 31 August 1908, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

WHUKE XEW I'LVilufTil LIiADS AUCKLAND. To tin; liditor. Sir,—All the itect eutfi-taiiiing is over, ami Auckland is the same Aiu'kland again, Iml a greater Auckland tiuu the. writer knew a dozen years or »u back. Auckland is tiic most upiodatc city in tiio Dominion. It is ~;,ici Ul i„g out and advancing wonderfully, ~,,<["* to ni.v judgment it is Syd ,cv ' on' i smaller scale. Furthermor.-,'it uii 'beautiful city and an ideal pieme r- ' »»rt-iu lac, tlic nick of Zealand, raeept the city ot cliurches. tnrist-clim-cn. With all Auckland's advnutages, Xc«- Plymouth leads thi- cih m a certain respect, ,„ ld it i, a snupie natter alter all, and Uie public of S K \v llymouth will see the advantage of tli«r present policy ilft ,,, rnidi f U|y Imcs lhe fact of the maltcr is tli.it Auckland is a large contributor to the proposed new Chinese navy and army as there are hundreds of Chinese here' auu they make good money here and' of course, it goes to China, ami event,,: ally the temporary yellow resident here goes to China, too, and takes with hi,,, a. knowledge of our country; and tells his twini brother John, and Auckland

and Wellington, etc., continues to '-vt\ further shipments of Ah liung and Co Aew Plymouth Ims given the yellow visitors the cold shoulder so fur as th« fruit business goes, and this is where the city of ironsand and butter leads . Auckland, and will continue to lead 'Auckland, so far as 1 can see, as it is is positively sickening to see the number of Chinamen that the citizens of Auckland employ, who are well nourished, sleek, and fat, whilst hundreds of white Aew Zealauders walk the streets here , unable to earn a few shillings, and with white families dependent on them too. It is both galling and disgusting, and the peculiar stench of the places ought to turn the public from them, but ■no; both men and women patronise our yellow future and present enemy—even in preference to the white—and that is how Auckland is helping to build the battleships of China, and New Plymouth by her present attitude towards the yellow man is not doing so. I referred to a peculiar odor that hangs around the Chinese simps. Was standing in Victoria street the other day and ran up against this change of atmospheric conditions, and, looking up, saw that it was a Chinese merchant of fruit, and, I suppose, the smell is of opium. In any case, it is disgusting, and a white man would be fined for having such a smell stationed around his premises. > The Chinaman is the essence of a prose thief as regards his dealings with the public, and apart from giving short weight, he gives rotten fruit at the bottom of the bag, and the fruit often is allowed to ripen in his bedroom, and used for a pillow, so it is stated in some cases, and the brainless fool public still continues to tolerate

this state of things, whilst our white kinsmen go workles» and hungry. It is in not tolerating the yellow sweater that New Plymouth leads* Auckland, and 1 didn't forget to rub the fact into them Up this end, and it is a very raw spot, too.

Time is limited, or I would pen a few of the dirty tactics adopted by the yellow to oust the white from earning a decent living. Just one instance. A lady of my acquaintance in a. seaport

town in the Dominion was struggling along to keep her family of fine young children and had a small stoop, and was doing fair. Then a Chow happened along and watched her prices, and would drop below them and beat her on every point, and she is now out of business and in poor circumstances, her husband being dead. With all Auckland's advantages, New Plymouth and Christchurch can teach this city a lesson as regards the yellow trader, ami both places are a credit to

the Dominion. Of course, the laundries Will continue to flourish, but i could open a few eyes regarding those places. lint I'll put- the nib aside.—l an), etc., AllTlini I'ICATiD. Auckland, August 28, 1008.