CHINESE FINED.
FOR FAILING TO REGISTER AS ALIENS. Auckland, June 25. At the Police Court Yee Kum and Ah Mon, two Chinese, admitted that they Tiad failed to register under the Aliens' Registration Act. Senior-Sergeant MoNamara stated that the defendants were smuggled into New Zealand some' time! about October last, and remained in hiding for some time. Eventually, however, they were hunted up by the Customs authorities, and paid up the poll tax and such other penalty as the Minister of Customs thought fit to impose. The defendants then went to work in market gardens, I>ut they had not registered as aliens. * Each defendant was fined £5 and 9s costs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1919, Page 4
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110CHINESE FINED. Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1919, Page 4
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