CHINESE ROBBED.

CHINESE ROBBED.TWO MAORIS CHARGED.SUSPECTS BEFORE COURT.
ASSAULT ALLEGATION. After being attacked by two men in his market  garden in Pilkington Road, Panmure about 9 o'clock last night, a Chinese named Fong Foo Ying. aged 52, was robbed of £195 10/.
The alleged assault took place when Fong Foo Ying left his house to bring in his horses from a paddock. The Chinese stated that one man threw a sack over his head while the other struck him on the head with a stone. His injuries, though painful, were not serious.
Jn addition to Sergeant B. Thompson and Constable McLean, of the Ellerslie police, Detective T. A. (iillum and Constable T. Jones, of the j>oliee night patrol, went to the scene and investigated the incident. Not long after midnight they arrested two young Maoris at a market garden The whole of the missing money wae rocovered. Suspects Remanded. This morning two Maoris, Charles Harris (19), and Kere Thompson (18), both gardeners, appeared before Mr. J. Morling, S.M., in the Police Court. Each was charged with robbing Fong Foo Ying at Paninure on January 9, of £195 10/, and at the time, or immediately before such robbery, using personal violence to the Chinese. On the application of Detective-Sergeant McHugh, the accused were remanded to appear again on January IS. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 8, 10 January 1940, Page 8