Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1895. JOHN CHINAMAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4966, 4 March 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1895. JOHN CHINAMAN.

While frankly admitting John Chinaman's business capacity and general amiability we have always been prejudiced against him as a vendor of fruit and vegetables. We were notsurprised when at Greytown last week John Chinaman was lined heavily for an almost indescribable horror, nothing less indeed than placing his fruit to ripen in n common recoptacle for filth, Fortunately the Greytown authorities appear to exercise somo supervision over the sanitary state of the town, hence this exposure. Unfortunately in Masterton it laxity prevails in detecting nnisances; although the latter are plain as a pikestaff, tliey are tolerated with a very wonderful equanimity by the authorities. This is especially the case with breaches nf the Borough By-law involving danger to the health of the community. On Saturday,forexamplo there was a stench in Masterton which stiffened the community, but unless we are very much mistaken, it was as attar of roses to the official nostril, The other day, too,it was said in this town that a family had been poisoned by putrescent meat, We have had very good reason to believe that a good deal of diseased and unwholesomo food is vended in Masterton. The Greytown episode is a fine object lesson for the purchasers of fruit, and it confirms an opinion which we expressed repeatedly some years ago when we argued in our columns that fruit and vegetables grown by Europeans were more wholesome than those grown and vended by Chinamen. We do not care much for John's fruit and vegetables, and we nre glad to hear that in the neighbouring town of Pahiatua, ha is supplanted and outdone at his own trade by a resident European population, fahiatua ;ve believe, gets' more wholesome supplies pf fruit and vegetables than {either Grey'foJyn or Masterton,' It's

table is furnished and that at very low prices,' by tho village settlers who livoin its neighborhood, andwhoaie able to grow all the vegetables required in that neighborhood to the exclusion of John Chinaman. This is as it should be, and we always said that European settlers could do this if thoy liked, and at Pahiatua they are doing it. Why do not small settlers in the neighborhood of Mastertou and Greytown follow the example of the village settlers of Pahiatua ? We learn from a good authority that these village settlers who are doing Chinamen's work are prosperous,