Scotchman v Chinaman.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3965, 17 November 1891, Page 2

Scotchman v Chinaman.

A Scotchman is now competing with Chinamen in supplying Auckland with vegetables. Hp trades under the title of the Avondale Vegetable Supply Depot, City Market. The Herald says of the enterprise:—" The history of the enterprise is a singular one. Mr Murray, the proprietor, took up some land at Avondale and commenced raising vegetables for town supply. He found that the Chinese had practically extinguished the suburban European gardeners in this line, through hawking their vegetables from door to door, and had also ruined the trade of the small shopkeepers in Earangahape road, who dealt in these products, Mr Murray found that he could not compete with the Chinese, as he had sometimes to sell sacks of vegetables at 9d a sack, and the sack not infrequently given in. He accordingly abandoned the contest for a time, and after studying the methods of the Chinese renewed it. He started, like the Chinese, hawking the vegetables from door to door, and found' that, price's being equal, a preference was gfven Jaij the vegetables grown by European labour. The .industry developed, until he has now six carts distributing supplies over the whole city. He has now 35 acres under cultivation, and employs 25 men and boys. This supplies about two-thirds of the quantity he requires, the balance being parchased. Everything is done by European labour.' -Mr Mitrjay h'aa'nbw opened/as already stated'the vegetable supply depot at the Market, five stalls on each side of the Cook Street wing of the City Market being fitted up for the sale or purchase of vegetables, which can be obtained there daily, hesli, by the small shopkeepers, at the rates already ruling for their pur- < chases. Mr Murray states that his i

Europtan laborers, working nine hours, do as'much wopk as [jip Chinese in fourteen.'ancl he feels satisfied he pan competo with them. The contest— Scotchmen y. phinamea—will be watohed with interest."

The Man of Law.

It is not to be forgotten, that whenever integrity, ability, and courage are required, the lawyer is oftener selected than anyone else. He it is \yh'o constitutes our judiciary, and through"' hi's phalracter apfl (Jonociehce the law whjch is acpep'iccf ancf acted upon by tho people is largely created. In all questions involving trusts, th« protection of the life, property, the protection of all classes and conditions, he is the instrument employed without apprehension that he will be unfaithful. Do the public patronise lawyers who make success attainable by immoral methods ? I agree that then is a flashy class of attorneys that attract the attention' 'of chprita wliosia credit is on a par with ihcir. counsel ■ but t);eir methods ascertained. They reaph tjipir level and remain. J[ venture the assertion that there is no lawyer of any reputation m practice to-day whose success is notdependnnt upon the integrity of his life, and his reputation for honesty on the lips of the people with whom he lives. While alfo for ability of the ngbf type to do hfs wdrk>s ;t ought iq be done, he finds )ais success in the mora) qualities he displays rather than in anything else.-~Am(iri-can Law Bet lew,