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Post by NZBC on Feb 26, 2010 21:47:09 GMT 12
hat two Chinamen who started business in Palmerston North — one as a fruiterer and the other as a draper— have had to put up their shutters. They were frozen out and had to return to Wellington, which is the natural home of the Chow in New Zealand — Observer, Volume XV, Issue 850, 13 April 1895, Page 3
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Post by NZBC on Jan 14, 2011 22:36:24 GMT 12
Twice Sent To Gaol
Distressed Chinaman's Quandary. (From "Truth's" Palmerston North Rep.) Sobbing like a thrashed child, and protesting weakly," James Ling, a Chinaman of Feilding, stood m the Palmerston North police station last week-end ' while the constables there went through his pockets, and relieved him of everything he possessed —^even to his braces' — prior to locking him up. Ling had been sent from Feilding after having been sentenced by two Justices of the Peace to a term of six months' imprisonment for being a rogue and vagabond. Knowing he had done nothirig wrong, and being of an honest disposition, Ling could not understand why he was being taken away — hence the sobs and the agonised • protests, which eventually sent, him to the verge of hysterics. He was weak and obviously out of health, and vainly strove to convince his captors that he had not committed any crime. It is a very short while since this same Chinaman was given a fortnight m the Wanganui gaol for being an idle and disorderly person, m order that he might have an, opportunity of being restored, to reasonable health. It did not do him much good, however, and the police of the town apparently could not give him a chance, for Jimmy arrived in' Feilding' on Friday evening, and on Saturday morning was up at the Court again on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond. NZ Truth , Issue 988, 1 November 1924, Page 3
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