CUSTOMS OFFICER CHEATS CHINESE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 216, 1 December 1927, Page 1

CUSTOMS OFFICER CHEATS CHINESE

HEE’S £IOO LOST FOUR MEN TO BE DEPORTED TACK HEE is not as lucky as ** most Chinese are supposed to be. He paid a Customs official £IOO and thought that entitled him to stay in New Zealand as long as he liked. Hee, Leong Day, Lee Gung and ; Louey Kum On pleaded guilty at the , Police Court to-day to charges of re- j maining in the Dominion longer than the period allowed in their temporary I immigration permits. Mr. S. W. Tong said that Hee had j paid money to a Customs official, who ; had since been dismissed. Accused was convicted and ordered , to be deported.

Leong Day and Louey Kum On were each fined £2O, and Lee Gung was ] fined £lO. ;

.They wili also be deported.

contains the bare majority I shall not support it nor vote for it; neither will I move the third reading. Mr. Holland: Will you allow it to go to the Statute Book? Mr. Coates: If the House decides that the Bill is to go to the Other Place it will go there. If the Other Place passes it we. will have to consider it when it comes back to this Chamber. Mr. Holland: The Other Place will not pass it. Mr. Coates: If members keep along these lines,, knowing my views on the bare majority—. Mr. Holland: That is not what I asked.

Mr. Coates: Do you expect me to answer everything? These amendments have been made and I will ask the House to accept them according to the draughtsmanship. But if the Bill goes through with the provision I have mentioned, I am done with it. I will not move the third reading. I hope I am not transgressing upon the good nature of the Chairman or of the committee. It has been made clear that the great majority of the members of the House wanted the Bill back. This was a matter for my own judgment, and I have carried it out. I could have left it where it was. Mr. Lysnar: Better if you had left it. (Laughter.) Mr. Coates: That is my own opinion, too. But if the Bill goes through this House the Other Place will have an opportunity of overhauling it. As to what they will do I am not in a position to say. “'Wait and See” Sir Joseph Ward, Invercargill: If the Bill passes the third reading in this House with the bare majority, and also passes the Other Place, and the Prime Minister is not in charge, will the Prime Minister sign a recommendation