Ah Moon in Shadow of Prison Walls

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Ah Moon in Shadow of Prison Walls An Unusually Reckless Chinese. (From "Truth's" South Auckland Rep.) If Ah Moon, formerly ' a Chinese fruiterer in various parts of the Waikato, glimpses his terrestial namesake during the next month, it will be through the "chink" of a prison cell, for last week he was sent to Mt. Eden for thirty days for trading recklessly and contracting debts which he knew he had no reasonable or probable expectation of paying. This Celestial dabbled in no fewer than four different fruit businesses in a very short time, and of none of them did he appear to make a success. He first bought out another Chinaman m the main street of Hamilton and also about the same time purchased a business at Frankton, while he entered . into a partnership with another Chinaman named Wong at Matamata, and subsequently the two of them took over a fruit shop at Morrinsville. He paid £60 for the Hamilton business and disposed of it for £40; and the Frankton business, which cost him £100, he sold for £25, while he estimated his loss on this undertaking at £250. He also considered he had dropped £ 300 on the Matamata business and £185 on the Morrinsville outfit. In his schedule, his total debts were set down at £446, and his assets at £180. The latter, however, realised only £130. NZ Truth , Issue 1025, 18 July 1925, Page 8 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZTR19250718.2.61&cl=search&srpos=6&e=-------100-PubMetaNZTR-1----0chinese+fruit+auckland-all&st=1