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Post by NZBC on Aug 28, 2010 23:39:48 GMT 12
FROST AT MASTERTOH.
(Per Press Association), MASTERTON, Oct. 24. There has been a heavy frost each night this week, which is almost unprecedented for the end of Octdlier. Garden crops are seriously affected and the Chinese gardeners have sustained severe, loss. Large areas of potatoes and beans will require ploughing up and replanting.
Bay Of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5277, 30 October 1908,
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Post by NZBC on Aug 28, 2010 23:52:11 GMT 12
ROBBING CHINESE GARDENS.
MASTERTON, Feb v. Sentences of three months' imprisonment were meted out to two young men named Jas. Chisholm and Sydney Woi ner. horse-trainers, of Opaki", who were charged with the theft ot vegetables, valued at ss. from a Chinese garden at- Akura last night. The evidence showed that accused rode to the garden on horseback, and. when filling a sack of onions and ' cabbages were disturbed by one ol bLe Chinese, who were on watch. The whole camp numbering about ten Celestials, were aroused, and one of the horses' was secured. The, police were thensent for. lhe Magistrate said that the practice was becoming, too frequent, and would have to be kept dwn. The sentences were without tho option ot a fine.
Grey River Argus , 12 February 1909, Page 3
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Post by NZBC on Aug 28, 2010 23:57:14 GMT 12
PURSUED! CHINESE CHASE A WHITE. LIVELY SENSATION AT OKURA. DOG, A STONE, SOME GLASS, AND TROUBLE. On Sunday afternoon (says the Masterton Age) the Akura road, near to the railway line crossing, was a. scene of considerable excitement. Miami 3lrs J. O'Keefe, of Masterton, were proceeding along Ngamatawa in company- with their young daughter Kathleen ,and Miss O'Keefe, the latter being in the company of Mr T. Home, a recent arrival in New Zealand and nephew of Mr O'Keefe. From statements given to the police by Mr Home, it appears that as the party were passing by the Chinese gardens in the road mentioned a dog came out of the gardens, near "by the hut in 'which the Chinese reside, and commenced to snarl and bark in. a threatening manner, and seemed about to attack Miss O'Keefe. Mr Home then picked up a stone and ■aimed at the animal, but missed the dog, and instead broke a, glass slat in a germinating house in tlie gardens. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=FS19090601.2.32&cl=search&srpos=38&e=-------100--1----0chinese+masterton--&st=1Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 893, 1 June 1909,
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