SELLING WOMEN FOR WIVES.
The sale of Chinese women is by no means uncommon in Sydney. The price of a Chinese woman delivered in Sydney is £3B but two Chinese women only cost £52. Therefore the heathen Chinese import their women in couples. The importer never sees his women before they arrive, and then he generally selects the best looking one. The other is shown round to a number of well-to-do Chinese, and after they have inspected her she is submitted to what may be called public auction. At a recent sale a girl of nineteen years was, after some spirited bidding, sold for £l2O.
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Patea Mail, 14 July 1881, Page 3
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105SELLING WOMEN FOR WIVES. Patea Mail, 14 July 1881, Page 3
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