ADVENT OF THE CHINESE.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 17 July 1906, Page 3

ADVENT OF THE CHINESE.

[To the Editor.] Sir, —With your kind permission I would like to place before your readers the position taken up by some members of the local body and prominent business men of the town. - When it was announced in the columns of your paper a week ago that two Chinamen intended renting the empty shop in the main street, it was realised by all who had the welfare of the town at heart that immediate steps should be taken to keep the alleged undesirable aliens out, and to that end it was suggested that the shop be engaged for three months, and that the cost be divided amongst the shopkeepers of the town, which would mean about Is 6d a week each. This scheme was readily agreed to by all the shopkeepers except two. Now, Mr Editor, I hold that when a man accepts an important position on local affairs he should be prepared to sink all personal feeling and work.for the general good of the town. If they think Chinese are desirable to the well-being of a community, the sooner they are shown their mistake the better. —I am, etc., Disgusted. [Once having decided to start here, we doubt whether the withholding of the above premises would have proved a preventative. At anyrate, similar action has failed in other places. —Ed.]

[To the Editor.] Sir,—l learn with regret that during the week a dastardly attempt has been made to boycott some of our yellow brothers, by trying to rent premises that they wanted and are quite suitable, but the Hands of Justice stretched forth and they are now duly installed in an up-to-date shop- Let me say our noble compatriots will pay up like gents, and leave no disputed change lying about. If they are no good to the place, are they any harm ? if neither, they must be just as they ought to be. Then, Welcome to Waipuk, my legalised fellow adopted countrymen !—Yours, etc., Win Kee. July 14.