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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2674, 2 December 1909, Page 7

The estimated area of the Chinese Empire is 4,300,000 square miles. Mr Hwang, Chinese Consul, mentioned at Palmerston North that he thought Chinese residents in New Zealand should be permitted to “send to China for their wives.” The presumption is, of course, that Chinese in'Now Zealand are married men, and that when they braved the unknown they left, their,, wives behind them. The Chinese' we know best in New Zealand come from the poorer Class, so that if . it is/the custom in China for the man to be the breadwinner it seems to fol-, low that the grass widows and children in China are very -unprotected, and are liable to starvation; It seems cleu£ that if Chinese avoid their home responsibilities by abandoning their families they would hardly make firstclass citizens even if they themselves . fell in with the idea of Mr Hwang. It is believed, however, that a largo proportion of the Chinese with us aro not married men. If they are, they had no moral light to leave home without their families. -