CHINESE IN TIMARU

.RESIDENTS'  OBJECTION. FOUR SHOPS WRECKED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.l TTMARU, -Sunday. Several letters have appeared in the local papers protesting against custom j being given to Chinese fruiterers, and !under cover of darkness due to the electric street lights being cut off on Saturday night, a small crowd wrecked 'four Chinese shops, in some cases breaking the plategiass windows. No arrests were made, as in the darkness it was impossible to see from which direction the missiles—fruit and vegetables from the shops—came. The streets have been without lights .for several nights, owing to both the gas producer and the steam plants failing lat the same time. There is only little power, and some domestic light available from a small combined steam engine and dynamo. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 93, 19 April 1920, Page 4