TRUST BETRAYED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 663, 15 May 1929, Page 1

TRUST BETRAYED

GAOL FOR CHINESE ROBBED HIS COUNTRYMEN INTERPRETER’S CRIME Found guilty yesterday on five charges of false pretences and two of theft, Albert Hong Duk, aged 29, formerly a trusted Chinese agent and interpreter, was sentenced at the Supreme Court today to 12 months’ imprisonment. The prisoner, who stood in the dock with drooping head, appeared to feel his position keenly. Mr. Schramm, speaking on his behalf, said that Hong Duk had been horn in China and received his English education in Queensland. In China he received a bullet wound that precluded him from earning his living hv heavy work, and counsel suggested that in consideration of his past good record h# should be granted probation. Mr. Justice Kennedy observed that the crimes had been committed in a period of years, and the prisoner, by reason of his English education, had been trusted by his ignorant country®en. One of them had suffered imprisonment because of the fraud that the prisoner had practised upon him. f ' was a case in which probation rould not be granted. On four of the false pretence L barges Hong Duk was sentenced to r - ne months’ imprisonment, and on each of the theft charges he was sentenced to three months’ imprison m ent, the combined terms on the theft, charges to be cumulative. TOO LONG IN DOMINION CHINESE FINED £25 Said by the Collector of Customs, A. Macintosh, to have stayed m ew Zealand two years longer than ‘ l * e terms of his temporary immigration permit allowed, Fong Hoong, a Uunese, aged 28, was fined £25 at the olic ® Court this morning. Hoong pleaded guilty and the col.ectop Bai, l that the man had arrived m Dominion in 1926. He had been Wanted one extension of his time on of ill-health, but he was more an two years over the limit. Regretting that he had no money, o °og expressed himself as quite prePare< * *° £° to gaol. He had nothing ®*se to say.

Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: I don’t sup°se w ill be in gaol long before his °untrymen get him out. A deportation order was made.