OFFENCES AGAINST CHINESE.
Per Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. | Frank Carroll and Francis Lyons were to-day admitted to probation and ordered to pay costs of prosecution on a charge of setting lire to ail outhouse adjoining a China man's sliop. The principal offender, Burgess, had previously been admitted by Mr. Justice Button to probation. This, Mr. Justice Cooper to-day said, was stretching the First Offenders Act to its utmost limit, lie was aware that amongst some people there was strong racial feeling against Chinese, but he wished it to be understood that offences against Chinamen would be punished just the same as offences against Europeans.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 28 November 1907, Page 2
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104OFFENCES AGAINST CHINESE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 28 November 1907, Page 2
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