100 YEARS AGO FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Selective immigration recommended
AUCKLAND: Some opinions from the Hindu point of view regarding the Asiatic question were expressed in an interview with a Star representative by Dr B.S. Share, who arrived from India last week. He is a high caste Sikh, born in Lahore and educated there and in Europe, being the possessor of medical degrees from the University of Brussels and Edinburgh. He is accompanied by his mother, for many years a teacher in Indian colleges for women; his wife, a teacher and qualified nurse; and their small son. It is their intention to make
their home in New Zealand. Dr Share has been for some time medical superintendent of a body of Imperial service troops, and was at the same time Sanitary Commissioner of Patna, the capital of Behar. Upon the subject of the Asiatic influx, Dr Share had no hesitation in speaking. “See that the Hindus whom you allow into your country are of a decent and lawabiding class and of a class that will remain here and eventually become reputable citizens. I have no sympathies with those who make land a mere treasure ground and return to India to spend your money. As for me, I have come here to stay. All my dependents have come to New Zealand with me and I have now no ties in India.”
No sympathy with objectors
Christchurch: The remarks made by General Russell at the end of last week in regard to conscientious objectors were referred to at the quarterly meeting of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association last night, when
the following resolution was carried: “This meeting of returned soldiers views with alarm the advocating of a prominent general urging the release of all conscientious objectors, and desires to inform the public of its dissociation from any such sympathy, where the socalled conscientious objectors are really military defaulters; and, furthermore, that it strongly urges that all military defaulters be kept in prison until the completion of their full term of imprisonment.”
Hardy birds survive winters
“It always seems strange to me,” Mr E. Roberts writes from Arthur's Pass, “that both native and introduced birds should remain above the snow line through the winters. For months there will be nothing there but rain, sleet and snow, and heavy frosts. The sun may not be seen for a week at a time. The beech forests are sodden and the moss is frozen, yet the birds remain, and at times one can hear their songs. I heard the song thrush sing all through one
winter. It seemed to live in a clump of beech up in the pass, and if the day was anyway fine it would sing joyously, quite regardless of the surrounding snow.
New Cadbury factory in Hobart
Hobart, Tasmania, has much to thank cheap hydro electricity for, and its application to manufacturers. The city is about to have established at Claremont, a suburb, a big cocoa and chocolate factory, in which Messrs Cadbury, Fry and James Pascall, London, are interested. The factory will supply the whole of the
Commonwealth. The site has been bought, arrangements made for the extension of the Hobart Gas Company's main to the new works, and plans for railway sidings have been carried out. The number of workers to be employed, as a beginning, will be 600, and it is provided to enlarge this number to 1000. The first instalment of the works and machinery will cost £250,000. — ODT, 13.7.1920.