The Auckland police at midnight raided a Chinese house occupied by Harry Wong and arrested Wong and fourteen other Chinese found there, the former on a charge of being the occupant of and the latter with being found in a common gaming-house. The police effected an entrance by a side window, and by forcing a door which was barricaded. Some of the Chinese were caught on the roof and others in the coal cellar. Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 171, 21 July 1917, Page 4
Friday, October 28, 2011
Working Sundays
Eleven Chinese appeared before the justices at the Auckland Police Court charged with working in their various gardens on a Sunday. One of the bunch pleaded not guilty to a charge of working on Sunday, saying that it was a cold, frosty morning, and he only went out to pull up a few weeds, as they were harmful to the young plants. The Bench, however, showed no sympathy, and the whole lot were convicted and fined 20s each, with 10s costs.
Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12797, 16 June 1909, Page 4
THE PREMIER'S SPEECH.
Upon the question of Chinese in New Zealand the Premier had a very extraordinary proposal to make. One of the difficulties in the way of their exclusion, he said, was the fact that the Chinese have almost a monopoly of the market garden business, and large numbers of people who would prefer to obtain vegetables from Europeans find it impossible to do so. Therefore he proposes to establish at the four centres market gardens to be worked, by prisoners, hoping thus to grow enough vegetables to supply very large proportion of the requirements of the people, and incidentally to provide prisoners with useful employment, for which they would be paid. Fancy/ the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, the brightest jewel in the Empire's crown, becoming a grower and purveyor of the "qabbagee," the "lubarb," and the "waterkless" for the free and independent electors, with the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, P.C., K.C.M.G., a* Minister for Market Gardens. If his vegetables are only as delicious as the idea is what a demand there will be for them. Yet Ministers are not, he declares, revolutionary socialists, nor of any school, though their policy of embarking the State union all sorts of industries certainly savours; of socialism.
Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13627, 10 February 1908, Page 4
MARKET GARDENING. AUCKLAND, 14th April. At a meeting of the recently-formed Auckland Market Gardeners' Association held, this evening at Avondale, it was decided to forward a petition to the Government requesting that the Prime Minister's proposals that prison labour be used in the production of vegetables on a State-owned farm be not given effect to, as they were sure that when Sir Joseph Ward made the suggestion he was not aware that of the vegetables sold in Auckland a large quantity were grown by white labour. It was also resolved to forward a letter to the Inspector of Police drawing attention to the Chinese working in their gardens on Sundays
Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 90, 15 April 1908, Page 3
UNEMPLOYED CHINESE AN AUCKLAND SCHEME POSITION IN WELLINGTON
A community garden scheme is proposed as a means of providing work for tho unemployed Chinese of Auckland, states an Auckland message. An assurance has been given by the Unemployment Board that the necessary wages will be found, although the basis of payment has not yet been fixed. The Rev. W. W. Chan, who has gone to Auckland from Wellington, is taking the initial steps of organising the workless Chinese in Auckland, who are estimated to number more than 200, and he is hopeful of the scheme being proceeded with as soon as possible. He said that there were 400 unemployed Chinese in Wellington, and in dealing with the problem there they had the co-operation of the Unemployment Board and .the Mayor of Wellington. "There are. two tongs in Auckland," said Mr. Chan, "and my object is to try to bring thorn together. In any case, when a man is hungry he forgets all about tongs." On inquiry being made at the Unemployment Board's office in Wellington today it was stated that no information was at present available as to the possibility of a garden scheme similar to that proposed for Auckland being introduced locally. Mr. Yue H. Jackson, Vice-Consul for China, told a "Post" reporter that the number of unemployed Chinese in Wellington is between 150 and 200. The Chinese community here numbers about 500, including women and children, and in --normal times employment is provided in laundries, fruit, silk-, and fancy-goods shops, market gardens, and Chinese restaurants and provision shops. At present practically all of those out of work are living with friends or relatives in shops or laundries giving their services in return for their keep. Naturally they are anxious to secure regular employment, but during the winter months work is scarce in the occupations suited to them. In the summer time there is work for them, in the market gardens, and trade in the shops is brisker. Chinese are eligible for relief work on the same basis as Europeans. In a number of cases of hardship the Chinese Conciliator has successfully applied to the Commissioner of Unemployment for exemption from payment of the unemployment levy. The Mayor of Wellington has given the use of two shops in Taranaki Street belonging to the City Council to Chinese who have no place of abode, and those premises are being used as shelters. "The Chinese community in Wellington lives very happily together," Mr. Jackson added. "The more fortunate ones are doing their best to help those who have been hard hit. There are district associations in the community but no tongs."
Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1934, Page 7
Friday, October 21, 2011
Chinese secret society recalled MATTHEW GRAY
Life for a Chinese migrant was extraordinarily difficult during the late 1800s and early 20th century.
Racism was rife in the staunchly British domain of New Zealand and arrivals from the Orient were generally regarded as second-class citizens.
Officialdom had little time for the Chinese and its disregard for them is evident in the lack of archival information available to modern-day researchers.
Language barriers also contributed to an uneasy environment and a haphazard approach to record-keeping.
Some of this may explain the story of Wong Chong, a 37-year-old market gardener who died in 1918 and is buried in a section set aside for his countrymen at Waikumete Cemetery.
Chong's headstone stands out among an assortment of memorials bearing epitaphs written in Chinese.
It includes the English words: Erected by the Gee Kung Tong Society.
Little is known of Chong – aside from his single status and address at 58 Albert St in Auckland.
But it is his membership of Gee Kung Tong that makes him of special interest.
The organisation formed as a secret body in 1674 to lobby for the return of the Chinese Ming dynasty overthrown by invading Manchurian armies three decades earlier.
It went by various titles, including the Triad Society which now has criminal underworld connotations in China and abroad.
A branch formed in New Zealand in 1907 and was better known as the Hung League or Chinese Masonic Society.
It had no links to western Freemasonry despite the similarity in title and was, first and foremost, a support network for people like Chong struggling to make a living in foreign and often hostile surrounds.
Members worked with the wider Chinese community on numerous projects – mediating in disputes, assisting with education and promoting aspects of the culture many were keen to preserve in a colonial setting.
The organisation also provided a patriotic link for people interested in keeping tabs on the political situation back home.
It seems likely that those accepted into the society took on new names as part of their initiation.
Chong, who died in the midst of a global flu epidemic, is a classic example.
His name, when translated from the epitaph on his stone, is Goh Gum.
The same situation applies to two other men buried nearby.
"It was common practice for Chinese at the time to assume different names following a major change in life or circumstance," historian Nigel Murphy says.
"So it is a distinct possibility that Goh Gum is a Gee Kung Tong name."
Interest in the society dropped after World War Two as communism swept through China and many immigrants abandoned plans to ever return.
Membership was virtually nil by the time a decision was made to disband in 1975.
- Western Leader
THE CENSUS RETURNS.
EDEN AHD MANUKAU COUNTIES COMPLETE RETURNS.
The returns for the counties of Eden and Manukau and islands of the Hauraki Gulf were completed lasb evening by Mr John King, census enumerator, and assistants. Compared with the returns for 1891, the Auckland borough shows an increase of 2,650, Parnoll borough 462 and Newmarke borough 343. The Onehunga borough shows a decrease of 11. In some portions ol Arch Hill and the Mount Eden Road districts seme of the population had to be transferred to the City of Auckland. This was necessary on account of those districts being in the City of Auckland electorate.
Borough of Auckiand (including 5 females) 49
Borough of Parnell (including 1 woman) 23
Borough of Newton 9
Borough of Newmarket 18
Arch Hill 11
Total 110
Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 130, 4 June 1896, Page 2
AUCKLAND
AUCKLAND, April 26. Another batch of local returns were completed by Mr Holmes (Chief Enumerator) to-day^ and in every instance an increase on the figures ©f the previous census is shown. The returns are all within the Eden county and cover road board and town board districts. The Chinese population of the Eden county shows a substantial increase in the five years. In 1906 there were 95 males and one female, and the return now shows 323 males and 35 females. Following are the principal returns, excluding some of the islands in and around the harbor. The figures for 1906 are given in parentheses:—Arch Hill, 2120 (1952); Eden Terrace, 2587 (2338); Epsom.. 2695 (1591); One Tree Hill, 3363 (1915); Panmure, 255 (217) Mount Wellington, 419 (396); Ellerslie, 946 (688); Mount Roskill, 1094 (883); Point Chevalier, 1275 (902): Avondale, 2062 (1489); Chinese (Eden County), 358 (96); Waiheke, 227 (163): Great Barrier, 416 (312); Rutlies Island, 110 (7); Pakatoa, 22 (4); Kawau, 60 (22). AUCKLAND, April 27. The census returns for Auckland City shows 41,067. The returns for Greater Auckland are incomplete, but it is certain the complete return will show that the increase considerably exceeds 100,000 in the past five years. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, 27 April 1911, Page 5
WORKING ON SUNDAY
MAORI AT I/ 2d PER DAY "It Is a terrible thing to work for Is 2d a day, remarked Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., when Tuke Tauriki, a Maori old age pensioner, charged with working within view of the public on a Sunday, at Panmure, Auckland, appeared in the Police Court on Friday, states the "New Zealand Herald." Jueing Hing, a Chinese, who was charged with aiding and abetting in the commission of the offence, did not appear. Constable O'Brien said he saw Tauriki working in Hing's garden, in Pilkington Road. He had worked there several days a week for two months, receiving Is 2d a day, Hing admitted engaging Tauriki to work on Sunday. The Magistrate, on hearing that Tauriki received a pension, advised him to ask for Is 2d an hour if he wished to work. Tauriki was convicted and discharged, and Hing was fined £2 and costs. Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 79, 4 April 1938, Page 19
STABBING AFFRAY
CHINESE IN COURT. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A prosecution, as the result of a stabbing affray at market gardens at Panmure, Ah Chu flourishing a garden fork and wounding Shee Sing in the face during an altercation, Sing being in hospital for eleven days, was heard in the. Police Court to-day. Owing to the reluctance of the chief Crown witness, the charge, wounding so as to cause actual bodily harm Preferred against Ah Chu (27), was reduced to common assaut, accused being convicted and ordered to pay costs £4 12s. The Magistrate remarked that Shee Sing, the Chinaman assaulted, had made up his mind not to get his countryman into trouble, and it would be useless to send the case to the Supreme Court. Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 85, 8 October 1923, Page 8
CHINAMAN SHOOTS CHINAMAN. MARKET GARDENERS' QUARREL,
ASSAILANT CAPTURED
(Per Press Association. ) AUCKLAND, this day
At Mount Roskill last night a Chinese market gardener named All Jing was shot at close range by his nme, Lcuie Yang, and seriously wounded; iittie hope of his recovery being entertained. Louie Yang has escaped. A boy returning from Mount Roskill school yesterday afternoon looked into a cottage occupied by two Chinese market gardeners, Ah Jing and Louie Yong. He saw Ah Jing stretched out on the. floor with a gun beside him. When investigation was made, Ah .Jing was found m bed, fully clothed, with an extensive wound m the abdomen, the flesh being seared, so that it Avas evident he had been shot at close range. The wounded man asserted tliat Louie Yong shot him. Apparently there was a fierce struggle, the bed being covered with blood, and the curtains were torn down. Tlie stream of blood Culminated m a pool where Ah Jong fell. Ah Jong said the quarrel arose owing to much talk, owing to Louie -Yong lying m bed .while he worked. "There was^mach talk,", he added "we fight" "in'-becf. s Aii Yong is m the hospital, and his condition is very critical. Louie Yong was arrested this morning at Panmure. He had one hand badly cut Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11348, 6 August 1908, Page 5
ACCIDENTS AT AUCKLAND
CHINESE CARDENERS.
[Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Yesterday. Fourteen Chinese were charged at the Police Court to-day with gardening on Sunday. Mr Napier, for the defence, contended that the men were engaged in a work >of necessity. Ihey were not' digging new ground or engaged iri the various ways of the market gardener, but were, taking up vegetables. They were engaged by Ah Chee, who had something' like 50 contracts to" fill early every, Monday morning for the supply of vegetables to various steamers and clubs, and it was impossible to carry out the work except by raising the vegetables on Sunday. Decision was reserved. Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 864, 5 November 1907, Page 5
CHINESE GARDENER INJURED
(By. Telegraph.—Press Association). AUCKLAND, Bth January. Severe head" injuries were received by a Chinese market gardener, Lim Gin, aged 25, of Mount Wellington, on Saturday afternoon when a "motorlorry he was-driving got out. of. control oil the Panmure highway and crashed into atelegraph pole. Lim Gin was found lying across the driver's seat in a semi-conscious condition and was taken to hospital. His condition is serious. The terrific force of the impact almost uprooted the telegraph, pole, and 40 telephone wires were severed.
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 6, 9 January 1933, Page 12
Thursday, October 20, 2011
MOUNT ROSKILL TRAGEDY.
A CHINESE QUARREL
It was an Eastern tragedy in a "Western setting that Mr Gresham, the city Coroner, was called upon to investigate at Auckland on Friday.- Two Chinamen, engaged in market gardening, at Mount Roskill, had livsd quietly together in their little "house in May's Road, for some years past. They had a reputation for peacefulness and industry, and suddenly, on August 5,. the two quarrelled, and one of them, Fong Mong Chee, was found with a gunshot wound in his body, from which he died on his removal to the hospital. The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding this man's death was held at the hospital. In the open porch half a dozen Chinamen squatted, with the mud of the fields on their half- Wellington boots, chattering away, apparently unconcerned. Near by, .in the mortuary, lay the body of Fong Mong Chee, embalmed ready for transportation to China. The first witness to appear was a little boy, Robert John Salmon, 10 years of age. .To him fell the experience of describing how he "found the mortally injured Chinaman on the evening of August 5. It was his daily practice to^call in and have a talk with "Ah Jing,^ as the dead Chinaman was known to him, but this day he discovered "Ah Jing" lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the diningroom, and rushed away to, his home to.tell his father. The boy's" father,, Albert Salmon, was called, and he ,told how he had hurried to the scene with a ■friend, but found that the injured Chinaman had crawled from the diningroom to his bed in the adjoining chamber. He asked him what Was the matter, and received the reply that his companion, Loui Shue Hock, had shot him. He sent for the police and remained in possession "of the place until they arrived witK Dr Parkes. The police evidence was of a formal character, and Dr Parkes described the terrible injuries Fong Mong Chee had received. He thought the man was between 40 and 50 years old. The shot had entered at the top of the abdomen. The gun must have been discharged quite close to the body—not more than a foot away, and probably closer. Dr Inglis stated that he had performed an operation, but the man died from hemorrhage, arising from the wound. He did not think it could be a case of suicide, he said in reply to Mr Skelton, who appeared in the interests of Loui Shue Hock, who is in custody charged with the murder of his companion. Chief-Detective Marsack, who appeared for the police, produced the depositions of the dead man, taken by Mr Dyer at the hospital, and William Tong, Chinese interpreter, stated that Fong Mong Chee was very sensible at the time, and understood the questions put to him. The accused man, Loui Shue Hock, was present when the depositions were, taken. Fong Mong Chee [opened his statement by recognising Loui Shue Hock. He said that they lived ,at Mount Roskill. They were both at the house together on the previous day. In the morning they had a few words, and Loui Shue Hock got very angry with him. He accused me," said deceased, "of being lazy and not working at the gardens, always being in the house. About one o'clock we were both in the house, and I asked him to write an envelope for me as I wished to write to Napier. He asked me what I wanted to wi-ite a letter for. I said I wanted to send some money. Then we started a row between us. Then I punched him, and we both caught hold of one another, and we struggled for some time. J got the accused down on the floor. Then he got away from me and picked up a gun standing in the corner. Then I rushed and picked up a knife, and he caught hold of the blade of the knife and took it from me. Then accused got the gun and shot me and ran out." Asked by Mr Skelton whether he did not threaten to kill the accused and actually rushed at him with a knife, Fong Mong Chee replied, "No. Ihe reason that I picked up the knife was that the accused picked up the gun before. I never cut him with the knife. I used my fist on his face. 1 threw away the knife when I was shot, and accused ran away. Fong Ghung, a gardener working m Quong Sang's garden at Three Kmgs, who was sworn by the blowing out of a match, next gave evidence which was interpreted by Wm. Fong. He said he knew Loui Shue Hock and saw him on August 5. He came to his garden at two o'clock in the afternoon, and seemed excited. He had part of a blade of a bloodstained knife m his hand. The portion of the knife produced in the Court—a piece ot blade about 6in long, of the ordinary carving-knife type—was that which Loui Shue Hock was carrying. He said that he and his mate, Fong Mong Chee had had a row, and that long Mong Chee had tried to stab him with a knife. Quong Sang, gardener, at Epsom, said he knew Loui Shue Hock and saw him on the date mentioned, a .little after two- o'clock. Loui Shue Hock said he had been very nearly killed by Fong Mong Chee. His hands were cut across the palms, and he carried the portion of the knife produced. Witness asked Shue Hock to tell him all about it, and he said "Directly after dinner, Fong Mong Chee gave me an address to write on an envelope to be sent to Napier. I went into the bedroom, and addressed one. Fong Mong Chee came into the room and asked me to address another, which I did. -Fong Mong Chee looked at it and said the writing did not correspond with the other envelope. Then we had a few words, and Fong Mong Chee made a rush to knock me on the bed. Then he drew out a knife, and attempted to stab. me. I got hold of the blade of the knife and we struggled on the bed. Then I managed to break the blade of the knife. We both stru^o-led until we were exhausted. At last I managed to get near the door, which I opened, and then ran out." .Witness drove him to Panmure, where Loui Shue Hock said he would tell Fong Mong Chee's relations before reporting the matter to the police. To Mr Skelton: He saw some small wounds on the face. He could not say whether the wounds wrere the result of blows or not. The fact that
Loui Shue Hock was going to see Fong Mong Chee's relations before the police was not unusual, because of the Chinese custom, which ordained that the matter should be settled amongst the tribe—"otherwise civil war might be set" up in the village from which they_ came in China." The Coroner,.. in summing up, said deceased's own statements showed that the action was not premeditated. It was for the jury to decide between murder and manslaughter. The jury returned a verdict that deceased met his death by a gunshot wound in the abdomen, feloniously caused by Lord Shue Heck.
The Coroner mentioned that the verdict amounted to one of manslaughter.—New Zealand Herald.
Marlborough Express , Issue 203, 27 August 1908, Page 2
A CHINESE QUARREL
It was an Eastern tragedy in a "Western setting that Mr Gresham, the city Coroner, was called upon to investigate at Auckland on Friday.- Two Chinamen, engaged in market gardening, at Mount Roskill, had livsd quietly together in their little "house in May's Road, for some years past. They had a reputation for peacefulness and industry, and suddenly, on August 5,. the two quarrelled, and one of them, Fong Mong Chee, was found with a gunshot wound in his body, from which he died on his removal to the hospital. The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding this man's death was held at the hospital. In the open porch half a dozen Chinamen squatted, with the mud of the fields on their half- Wellington boots, chattering away, apparently unconcerned. Near by, .in the mortuary, lay the body of Fong Mong Chee, embalmed ready for transportation to China. The first witness to appear was a little boy, Robert John Salmon, 10 years of age. .To him fell the experience of describing how he "found the mortally injured Chinaman on the evening of August 5. It was his daily practice to^call in and have a talk with "Ah Jing,^ as the dead Chinaman was known to him, but this day he discovered "Ah Jing" lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the diningroom, and rushed away to, his home to.tell his father. The boy's" father,, Albert Salmon, was called, and he ,told how he had hurried to the scene with a ■friend, but found that the injured Chinaman had crawled from the diningroom to his bed in the adjoining chamber. He asked him what Was the matter, and received the reply that his companion, Loui Shue Hock, had shot him. He sent for the police and remained in possession "of the place until they arrived witK Dr Parkes. The police evidence was of a formal character, and Dr Parkes described the terrible injuries Fong Mong Chee had received. He thought the man was between 40 and 50 years old. The shot had entered at the top of the abdomen. The gun must have been discharged quite close to the body—not more than a foot away, and probably closer. Dr Inglis stated that he had performed an operation, but the man died from hemorrhage, arising from the wound. He did not think it could be a case of suicide, he said in reply to Mr Skelton, who appeared in the interests of Loui Shue Hock, who is in custody charged with the murder of his companion. Chief-Detective Marsack, who appeared for the police, produced the depositions of the dead man, taken by Mr Dyer at the hospital, and William Tong, Chinese interpreter, stated that Fong Mong Chee was very sensible at the time, and understood the questions put to him. The accused man, Loui Shue Hock, was present when the depositions were, taken. Fong Mong Chee [opened his statement by recognising Loui Shue Hock. He said that they lived ,at Mount Roskill. They were both at the house together on the previous day. In the morning they had a few words, and Loui Shue Hock got very angry with him. He accused me," said deceased, "of being lazy and not working at the gardens, always being in the house. About one o'clock we were both in the house, and I asked him to write an envelope for me as I wished to write to Napier. He asked me what I wanted to wi-ite a letter for. I said I wanted to send some money. Then we started a row between us. Then I punched him, and we both caught hold of one another, and we struggled for some time. J got the accused down on the floor. Then he got away from me and picked up a gun standing in the corner. Then I rushed and picked up a knife, and he caught hold of the blade of the knife and took it from me. Then accused got the gun and shot me and ran out." Asked by Mr Skelton whether he did not threaten to kill the accused and actually rushed at him with a knife, Fong Mong Chee replied, "No. Ihe reason that I picked up the knife was that the accused picked up the gun before. I never cut him with the knife. I used my fist on his face. 1 threw away the knife when I was shot, and accused ran away. Fong Ghung, a gardener working m Quong Sang's garden at Three Kmgs, who was sworn by the blowing out of a match, next gave evidence which was interpreted by Wm. Fong. He said he knew Loui Shue Hock and saw him on August 5. He came to his garden at two o'clock in the afternoon, and seemed excited. He had part of a blade of a bloodstained knife m his hand. The portion of the knife produced in the Court—a piece ot blade about 6in long, of the ordinary carving-knife type—was that which Loui Shue Hock was carrying. He said that he and his mate, Fong Mong Chee had had a row, and that long Mong Chee had tried to stab him with a knife. Quong Sang, gardener, at Epsom, said he knew Loui Shue Hock and saw him on the date mentioned, a .little after two- o'clock. Loui Shue Hock said he had been very nearly killed by Fong Mong Chee. His hands were cut across the palms, and he carried the portion of the knife produced. Witness asked Shue Hock to tell him all about it, and he said "Directly after dinner, Fong Mong Chee gave me an address to write on an envelope to be sent to Napier. I went into the bedroom, and addressed one. Fong Mong Chee came into the room and asked me to address another, which I did. -Fong Mong Chee looked at it and said the writing did not correspond with the other envelope. Then we had a few words, and Fong Mong Chee made a rush to knock me on the bed. Then he drew out a knife, and attempted to stab. me. I got hold of the blade of the knife and we struggled on the bed. Then I managed to break the blade of the knife. We both stru^o-led until we were exhausted. At last I managed to get near the door, which I opened, and then ran out." .Witness drove him to Panmure, where Loui Shue Hock said he would tell Fong Mong Chee's relations before reporting the matter to the police. To Mr Skelton: He saw some small wounds on the face. He could not say whether the wounds wrere the result of blows or not. The fact that
Loui Shue Hock was going to see Fong Mong Chee's relations before the police was not unusual, because of the Chinese custom, which ordained that the matter should be settled amongst the tribe—"otherwise civil war might be set" up in the village from which they_ came in China." The Coroner,.. in summing up, said deceased's own statements showed that the action was not premeditated. It was for the jury to decide between murder and manslaughter. The jury returned a verdict that deceased met his death by a gunshot wound in the abdomen, feloniously caused by Lord Shue Heck.
The Coroner mentioned that the verdict amounted to one of manslaughter.—New Zealand Herald.
Marlborough Express , Issue 203, 27 August 1908, Page 2
SUPREME COURT.
Press AUCKLAND, November 19. At the Supreme Court a Chinaman, Louie Vug, otherwise known as Shue Hock, was arraigned on a charge of having on or about August 8 last at Mt. Roskill murdered a fellow-countryman named Fong Mong Chee. The jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter, and prisoner was sentenced to two years'.
Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, 19 November 1908, Page 4
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