Chinese In The

Solomons

Letter to the Editor Chinese traders are still active.

As one takes a walk in Chinatown, one notices many children and Chinese women, and thinks that in about 20 years’ time, no white planter or trader will be in the group. It is time now that all Chinese immigration was stopped.

After all, this is a British place, not an Asiatic colony, and British should have a prior right of earning their livings here.

What have the Chinese ever done in the Pacific? All their earnings go to China, for Chinese goods and labour. The pro portion of British goods sold in a Chinese store is about half of one per cent.

These Chinese have no goodwill to wards the British flag or people and. to a person who is not a Britisher, they will not hesitate to declare their dislike of Britain, and British people in general.

Of course, when a war is on, matters are different. The white man is asked to come forward and fight for his country and protect the flag that neglects him when there is no war.

This is the view of the majority of th>?

British planters and traders in the Solo mons at the present time. And who can blame them?

I am, etc.,

Marsina.

Tulagi, 5.1., 4/12/’35.

Mr. Leslie V. Waterhouse, technical director of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., will sail from Sydney on February 5, on a business trip to America and Europe. He will be away for about seven months, dur ing which he will inspect a mining pro perty in Colombia (South America).

Mr. W. R. Humphries, one of the senior resident magistrates of the Papuan ser vice, arrived in Sydney on furlough in December, and will return in March. He has been 24 years in Papua, and looks well—he says the climate suits him.