WUN LUNG AT MARTINBOROUGH.

NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 5

WUN LUNG AT MARTINBOROUGH.

A Promising Youth. Girl-Children who Haunt the Chinaman's Store. That the curse of the Chinkie -is not confined "to the big cities of New Zealand has, unfortunately, been, for long too well known and too often recorded m "Truth" to need recapitulation. It is a most lamentable fact that every town and hamlet m "God's Own Country" has been invaded by these most undesirable aliens and that whatever spot of our beautiful land their filthy feet alight on, they pollute. .Even little "twopub" Martrinborousft has its Chow, and, thanks to the foul, ignorant, unpatriotic, brainless, thoughtless women, he thrives, while the hardworking white trader, who has to support a wife and family m decency and do his duty "m that state of life," etc., finds it a bitter battle, to make ends meet.

Joe King is the name the-Martin-borough Chinaman trades under, and he is a, smooth gentleman who talks p'iginrEnglish, vWpjshes his hands m invisible soap and imaginary w4ter,. and smirks blandly on all and sundry. He has as a 1 clerk a Chinese boy of sixteen, who speaks fair English and writes her well— for a Chinkie.

Also, he is said to haye a Maori sleeping partner, and altogether he seems to have a good thing on.

Any hour of the day, m and around this Chinaman's store, may be seen the impudent little daughters of local residents. They sniff around the place like terriers suspecting rat£, and are always cadging for odds and ends. It is easy to guess what may happen under such a set of circumstances and already the "boy" clerk has openly- boaated as to ' what he will do to "all those lillee gal bymbv." The devil doubt him and nobody can blame him if he lets, his senses and accursed opportunity run away with him.

Doubtless these female imps are by nature wicked and acouifritive, but it is to their parents that we should look for their proper training and restraint, and if some parents m Martinborough do not exercise theiir authority and keen their girls away from the heathen's store, they, need not he surprised if, m a near future issue, tbis.'paner publishes the names of the girl children whose haunting in* the precincts of the danger zone is becoming a public scandal m the little town. Verb. sap.