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