COMING FROM PUNJAB.THE HINDU IMMIGRANT 60 THIS YEAR. AND 233 CHINESE. The Maheno on her visit to this port early on Tuesday morning, brought to New Zealand eighteen Hindus and sixteen Chinese. This brings the total of Hindu immigrants up to sixty since the New Year, while 33 Chinamen have made their debut in Auckland within the isamc period. Official records prove that the great majority of these Hindus are coming in from the Punjab, a North-Western province lying along the banks of the Indus, and watered by five tributary streams ito this river. Meet of these men who 'write queer little letters, asking for perniLasion to come into the country, are i from the same village, and there is I reason to believe that they look upon this land as a kind of Paradise before they land here. Still, they live simply according to our standards, make money and return with it to the land of their ancestors. It would appear that many of them mike several trips back home at intervals ot years, and come back again and again to make another little pile. Their earnings are seldom spent out here, but are used partly to act the lord in their own land and partly to pay the paasags money for their relations to come over and join them. The Chinese come from Canton for the most part, and it is always difficult to trace their doings. Few people know exactly where they get the £iOO for each poll tax, but it would seem that a few influential Chinese here have often a hand in the matter. Be that as it may, the Hindus and the Chinese, though absolutely apart in all their standards, always manage to take away from this country of their temporary adoption a great deal more than they bring into it or leave in it. Their fruit shops and laundries are all over Auckland, and almost every week sees a new Chinese concern open. Even in occasional instances they are beginning to trade in silk- and soft-goods. The Hindus are growing in numbers rather rapidly. They have a very simple educational test which presents no difficulty to them, and for the few who work fruit hawkers' barrows, and eventually, after a season of success open a fruitshop at a permanent stand like the one in Karangahape Road, there are iaany who join the encampments down the Main Trunk and engage on contract work on the roads and in the bush in the interior of the land, living cheaply and often in squalor, and in the meaatime, holding the major part of their wages with a view to the future. Although these men are apart altogether from the life of the coatnunitr, yet in a certain sense they continue to insinuate themselves into the city's dealings. They sell their wares at' a much cheaper rate than white men do, and they attract a considerable amount of custom. No more than a bare fraction of their takings comes back into circulation again, and just as they themselves keep within their own little colonies, isolated from all, go also their money is kept among themselves. Ail the evidence that can be gathered points to this fact that they conspire to drain the country. The movement of Hindus into New Zealand is still in its infancv. But it is growing. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 90, 15 April 1920, Page 4