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Napier
Jun 27, 2012 19:06:07 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Jun 27, 2012 19:06:07 GMT 12
OR WAR LORDS.
MONEY FROM CHINESE. STATEMENT BY BANKRUPT. "SOME SEND £50 AND SOME £1" (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NAPIER, this day. Interest in tlic affairs of a Chinese fruiterer, Harry Bowson, who has filed a petition in bankruptcy in Napier, took a.now turn when at a meeting of his creditors yesterday the fact that Chinese in New Zealand had contributed to the military expenses of the war lords who had been fighting the Japanese was mentioned. "I am president of the Chinese Society iu Hawke's Bay, and as such have had to send some money," said the debtor, in reply to a question by a creditor, who asked whether bankrupt had sent any money away to assist the war in China. The debtor added that all the Chinese in the district had had to send something to help the war lords. "Some send £30 and some send £1," he added. FOR WAR LORDS.
Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 133, 8 June 1933, Page 11
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