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Post by NZBC on Jan 8, 2010 19:08:02 GMT 12
here are now two Chinese furniture factories m Auckland, and although tin; workers are comparatively few in number they are managing to turnout a fairly large quantities of goods. One of the places of business has been running for about a year. The other- establishment, is more recent, having been opened about the beginning of this year. General cabinetmaking is carried out, but in neither place is there any modern machinery. The Chinese, it is stated, adopt their own methods, using Eastern benches and Eastern goods. As is not not infrequent m the case of Chinese businesses m this country, the cabinetmakers are excluded from the operations of the trade award.The more recently established factory, for instance, is run as a company, the hands being co-partners, so that hours of labor, wages, and such like are their own concern. Both places, of course, are subject to the provisions of the Factory Act so far as the conditions of the factory are concerned. At present the question of future restrictions has been left in the hands of the Cabinet, but the matter will be raised by the Labor members of Parliament during the session now opened. Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XVI, Issue 823, 29 March 1921, Page 4
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Post by NZBC on Feb 17, 2010 21:01:03 GMT 12
AUCKLAND, August 5. At Mount Roskill to-night a Chinese market gardener named Ah Jing was shot at close range by his mate, Louie Yan g, and seriously wounded, little hope of his recovery being entertained. Louie Yang has escaped. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12534, 6 August 1908, Page 5
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Post by NZBC on Apr 5, 2010 8:33:45 GMT 12
In Auckland, the Chinese invasion haß not advanced quite so far. John's enterprise here is largely confined to market gardening, but still his sign here and there over shop fronts shows that he has started to annex the occupation of grocer and fruiterer. He is also competing against the washer-woman. Tempted by cheap goods and cheap service, the working classes will unthinkingly patronise the alien, and then as he begins to extend- his field of operations and to undercut them at their own means of livelihood, they will rather tardily realise that it was grievously mistaken folly after all to deal with the Chinaman. Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 907, 16 May 1896, Page 2 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TO18960516.2.3.2&cl=search&srpos=27&e=-------100--1----0chinese+fruit+auckland-all&st=1
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Post by NZBC on Jun 17, 2010 21:43:10 GMT 12
2 men gaoled or murder Auckland (N.Z.), Thursday
A jury found Francis Patrick O'Rourke, 35, labourer, and Ronald Hugh Malcolm, 22, freezing works hand, guilty of the murder of a Chinese, Lee Hoy Chong, in a house in Auckland.
Both were sentenced to life imprisonment, but the jury recommended mercy for Malcolm.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 4 August 1950
N.Z MURDER IJFE IMPRISONMENT FORT WO MEN
AUCKLAND, N.Z., Aug. 3 (AÁ.P.).-The jury found Francis Patrick O"Rouke (35); labourer, and Ronald Hugh Malcolm (22), freezing works hand, guilty of murdering an Auckland Chinese, Lee Hoy Chong, in a house in the city. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment. Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909-1954) (about)
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Post by NZBC on Jun 17, 2010 21:46:13 GMT 12
CHINESE MURDERED
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Tuesday. (A.A.P..-Reutèr).-A retired Chinese, market gardener, Lee Hoy Chong, 48; was found by two Maori girls today,murdered in the kitchenette of his home in Baker Street, City.Footprints rnade by a shoe were found in blood in the kitchenette and also near the bàck fence. " The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 24 May 1950 MURDER OF CHINESE Violent Struggle In Auckland House AUCKLAND, May 23: Lee Hoy Chong (48), a retired Chinese market gardener, was found murdered in the kitchen ette of his home in Saker street, city, this morning. Two Maori girls found the body lying on the floor. There was a large wound in the top of the left temple-which ap peared to have been caused by a blunt instrument. Indications were that Lee was attacked at the foot of a stair way as .a trail of blood led to the kitchenette. In the room there were signs of a violent struggle. Footprints led from the kitchenette to the back fence. No weapon has yet been found.-A.A.P.-Reuters. The West Australian (Perth, WA Wednesday 24 May 1950
MURDER OF CHINESE Auckland. - Two Maori girls found the body of a 48-year-old Chinese market gardener (He Lee Hoy Chong), who had been battered to death in the kitchen- of his home in Baker Street, Auckland. Neighbors said that the dead Chinese was interested in gambling Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW Thursday 25 May 1950
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Post by NZBC on Jun 17, 2010 22:04:48 GMT 12
CHINESE ROBBED OF £690 (A.A.P-Reuters) AUCKLAND.-'Sunday. '
Attacked when -opening the door of a «hop In the city to night, a Chinese, named Sim Sun, aged 70, was robbed of £570 in notes and £320 in bank drafts.
The victim had been visiting friends.
He noticed three men near the doorway and he was struck on the chin.
When he recovered conscious ness he found the money was missing from his pocket.
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 15 November 1948
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Post by NZBC on Jun 17, 2010 22:15:19 GMT 12
A careful translation of tile document issued by the Governor of Canton, and circulating among the Chinese resident in 'New Zealand, shows no special reference to Australia and New Zealand. It is merely addressed to Chinese residing abroad, and states that complaints have been received from Chinese merchants ,that the Chinese were badly treated in some places, and advises them not to remain where badly treated, because there is plenty of room for, them in China. The document contains information regarding the state of trade in Canton, Hongkong, aud Shanghai.
At a meeting of Chinese at Auckland on Saturday It'was resolved to assist some poor countrymen buck to China.
he Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860-1954) Monday 16 July 1888
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Post by NZBC on Jun 17, 2010 22:17:28 GMT 12
MAD CHINESE JUMPS OVERBOARD
AUCKLAND (NZ), Tuesday During the Voyage of the Ulimaroa fiom Sydney a Chinese who is being returned from Australia to New Zealand crawled through a porthole outside Sydney Heads and was drowned. The ship circled round for a time, but no sign of the Chinese was won The sea was calm. The man had written on the cabin will in Chinese that he was determined to become a fish.
He had left Wellington for Sydney by the Ulimaroa but at Sydney was declared insane, and his return was oredered.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 16 June 1926
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Post by NZBC on Dec 26, 2010 8:46:58 GMT 12
Auckland's Chinese community in 1919 From the NZ Herald, 29 August 1919. CHINESE IN AUCKLAND. GLIMPSES OF THEIR LIFE. OLD TRADITIONS FAILING. INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN. Although the sight of the Chinaman working industriously in his trim garden, reckoning change with amazing accuracy in a fruit shop or handing out the week's laundry, is a very familiar one to Aucklanders, comparatively little is known of the local conditions under which these sons of the Celestial Empire are living. There are at present about 400 Chinamen in Auckland, and perhaps 10 Chinese wives. Nearly all the others, however, have wives and children in their own land, and are patiently adding day by day to the little board that will some day enable them to go back to their homes and families. The family tie is a very strong one with the Chinese, and their sojourn in a foreign land usually but the stepping-stone to a return home and prosperity among their own folk that it would be very hard to obtain in the ordinary run of life in China. timespanner.blogspot.com/2010/09/aucklands-chinese-community-in-1919.html
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Post by NZBC on Jan 7, 2011 19:32:18 GMT 12
212 Price Fred, Chinese warehouse 216 Jenkins and Co, drapers and millinrs 218 Whyte James, tobacconist here Wellesley-street intersects Dyson Richard Weston, draper etc 222 thingyey J and J , ironmongers Hopkins Lewis J , stationer and tbcst 2 Q U E E N - S T R E E T , E A S T SIDE continued. 226 Hewin Fred and Co, family grocers 228 Smith Samuel Hague, merchant Twohey William, broker Kemp … 1866 - Mitchell and Seffern's Directory of the City and Suburbs of Auckland, for 1866-7. > Auckland Street Directory for 1866-7, p 1-28 www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/search.php?start=81&method=simple
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Post by NZBC on Jan 14, 2011 22:32:15 GMT 12
A RACIAL RIOT
EXCITING AFffiAYJI AUCKLAND The Killing of Wong Foo FOUR fIJIANS CHARGED WITH MURDER
As 1 the outcome of an affray m Grey Street, on October 24, the result of which was the death of a Chinese gardener, Dv Moy, also known as Wong Foo, four sturdy Fijians, named John Frank Peckham, ship's ilreman, Julian Florian, laborer, Charles Mc- Goon, carpenter, and David Lazarus, carpenter, were charged before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., with having mur• dered Dv Moy. Chief Detective Mcllveney prosecuted, Mr. Singer appeared for Florian and Mr. Moody for McGoon, Peckham and Lazarus.
Mr- McKean, S.M., sat as coroner on the inquest, which was held at the same time. . Dr. Donald McCrao said that on the night of October 24 he was m charge of No. 1 Ward at the Auckland Hospital, and remembered a Chinaman, Wong Foo, being brought m unconscious. He was suffering from a fracture of the base of the skull, but there . were no marks about the face. Wong Foo died next day without regaining consciousness. ' Dr. D. N. W. Murray said he made a post-mortem examination on the body of Wong Foo. • There were no external marks of violence except a ja-aze on the right shin. Both eyes were blackened and there was a lracturo-of the base oC the skull. rhe> seventh, eight and- ninth ribs on the right side of the chest were fractured. Jn witness's opinion death was due to, fracture of the base of tho skull combined, with haemorrhage of the Wong BackHoo" (through an interpreter) said that the body he saw »t the morgue on October 26 was that of his father, Wong Foo. The deceased was married, with a wife m China. He was 55 years of age ana a market gardener at the time of his death. On the Sunday evening, October 23, witness gave deceased £50, some silver and- a cheque. Constable Robert W. Stewart, said that he found the deceased m Cook Street at 5.20 p.m. on October 24. His eyes Were bruised and he was bleeding from the mouth and nose. Witness took him to the hospital, at which time he wag unconscious. On being searched Wong F £o had £68 In .notes, a cheque for £17 18s. &™ .™* m gold, and £1 10s m silver, besides a watch and chain and- diamond ring. Robert Angus Leikis, motor mechanic, said that on Monday, October 24, he Tvas at work at 5.30 p.m. at a garage near the corner of Albert ana Cook Streets. He heard some shout- Ing and on coming out of the garage he saw several Islanders coming up Cook Street. On reaching Albert Street one of them took off his coat and ran down Cook Street. Witness followed, and on reaching the corner .saw the Islander NZ Truth , Issue 834, 12 November 1921, Page 6
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Post by NZBC on Jan 15, 2011 16:10:58 GMT 12
he -case-was one In which Jimmy Chee, a 'Chinese fruiterer at Takapuna, wds charged with having assaulted Arthur Bestic so as to cause him actual .bodily harm. Jimmy, a diminutive Oriental, ( who certainly looked mild enough; denied the assault charge and wtLtßd,ef elided by Lawyer .Leary. . . ; ; Beiß|ic told rather a tall tale. According, U) him, he was walking quietly past -Jimmy's fruit shop In the wee small hours of New Year's Day when the. door suddenly burst open and out --rushed a crowd of heathen Chinese, Jimmy brandishing a terrible-looking knife, presumably with the intention of 'initiating a miniature Boxer Rising^ The only .casualty, however, was to Bestic, who got a cut on his hand. NZ Truth , Issue 951, 16 February 1924, Page 6
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Post by NZBC on Jan 15, 2011 16:49:00 GMT 12
Subsequent to the arrest of the three girls* Detective Sergeants. Ward and Cummings visited the fruit shop of Wong Hung' In Qtieen Street, and the result of the visit saw Ah Pong and Ming Yui charged on Friday with having opium m their possession suitable for smoking. Wong Hung, who manages the shop, was charged with permitting the smoking of opium. 'Mr. J. H. Ridings prosecuted and Mr. thingyson appeared for the "Chinks." The "demons" gave evidence that on visiting the living rooms at the shop there were no Chinese present. In the kitchen was a mat used by smokers of opium and an opiumsmoking lamp which was warm. In the bedroom of Pong the "demons" found two small tins of pure opium and three bottles of yenshee. the latter being the smoked ash of opium. In a box forming part of Ming Yui's bed were found a box containing opium pills' and another with yenshee. NZ Truth , Issue 839, 17 December 1921, Page 5
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Post by NZBC on Feb 12, 2011 21:47:37 GMT 12
AUCKLAND CRIME. Chinese Battered and Robbed. AUCKLAND, Jan. 22.-With their heads battered two Chinese were found unconscious this morning in their house in Auckland. They had been attacked by two masked men wielding pieces of rubber hose filled with lead and who robbed them of money, gold and jewellery valued in all at more than £1,100. Both vic tims were taken to hospital. The West Australian (Perth, WA Thursday 23 January 1947
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Post by NZBC on Feb 12, 2011 22:21:23 GMT 12
CHINESE LEPER'S SUICIDE THIEF STEALS CLOTHING Auckland ÍN.Z.}. Septembcr 20.
A Chinaman named Wong Poy ws discovered suffering from leprosy. Be fore he could be isolated Poy hanged himself. A thief broke into the house and stole clothing, for which the health authorities are making an anxious search, Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW Wednesday 23 September 1931
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