Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25. No. 12. 1962

[introduction]

"It is easier to make a Communist out of a New Zealand than a Chinese farmer!" This statement was made to Salient by Dr W. G. Goddard, who was for twenty years a professor of Chinese history.

"The New Zealand farm is run purely as a profit making Institution," he said. But the Chinese I farmer was bound to his farm, not only by his living, but by the LiChi philosophy. One of its chief points is that man comes from the soil and returns to it. As the family graves are all on the farm, to a Chinese his farm is closely bound up with his family and his religion.