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Foxton
Mar 5, 2011 20:58:17 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Mar 5, 2011 20:58:17 GMT 12
THEFT OF VEGETABLES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
FOXTON, This Day.
Edgar Ronald Coley, married, and Robert Donald Calder, single, charged with the theft of vegetables from a Chinese market garden at Motuiti, appeared before local Justices this morning and were each sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 48, 25 August 1937, Page 13
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Foxton
Mar 5, 2011 21:02:01 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Mar 5, 2011 21:02:01 GMT 12
BIG GRASS FIRE hundreds of acres COVERED (By Telegraph.—Press' Association.) FOXTON, This Day. The midday, train to Foxton started a serious grass fire yesterday involving hundreds of acres of land. A dairy herd and Chinese market garden dwellings were threatened. Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1935, Page 11
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Foxton
Mar 5, 2011 21:36:20 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Mar 5, 2011 21:36:20 GMT 12
THE LAST STRAW
BANKRUPT GARDENER (Special to the "Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This Day.
The depredations of the white butterfly amongst his cabbage crop were cited by So Wing, a Chinese market gardener, of Foxton, as the last straw in a succession of misfortunes which led up to his filing a petition in bankruptcy. At a meeting of creditors yesterday, it was revealed that he owed £614, whereas has assets were only worth £81. The latter consisted of three horses (£SO), three carts (£10), car (£10), and plough, discs, and harrows (£11). Asked what he wasN doing now, So Wing said he was still living on the garden, but it had nothing in it. He was draining the place in the hope that someone might give him a fresh start. He had two children in China and four in New Zealand.
The meeting was adjourned sine die. Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 17, 19 July 1935, Page 7
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Foxton
Mar 5, 2011 22:45:23 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Mar 5, 2011 22:45:23 GMT 12
LAND PURCHASE WAR LOAN CONDITION SUGGESTION OF BLACKMAIL A suggestion that a friendly alien had been improperly treated in connection with his application to acquire the freehold of his market garden was made in the House of Representatives yesterday by Mr. M. H. Oram (National Manawatii), He said that a Chinese saved sufficient money to purchase the freehold and that when the application was made to the Minister to approve the transfer the condition was laid down that he must take up war loan stock to the extent of £1000. As the Chinese had" only sufficient money to buy the land he had to go to a bank to raise a loan and an appeal to the Minister to reduce the amount of the war loan ended in a compromise of £500, said Mr. Oram. Such treatment of a friendly alien was wrong and improper. Mr. J. Hodgens (Government, Palmerston North) Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1944, Page 9 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19440930.2.40&cl=search&srpos=247&e=-------100--201----0chinese+market+garden--&st=1
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