TO LEAVE DOMINION
Chinese Overstays Permit
Wong Sek Yan, alias Wong Yow, a market gardener, aged 43 (Mr. Meltzer), made a pathetic figure as he limped into the dock at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer a charge of overstaying the period for which a permit to reside in the Dominion had been granted. Alexander Paul, a Customs official, said that the accused had arrived from .Tahiti by the Makura on October 26, 1926, and had been granted a permit to reside in the country for six months. . Since then nothing had been heard of him. A warrant had been issued in October last, and he had been arrested at Foxton. His offence was regarded as a serious one, and section 11 of the Act provided a penalty of one year’s imprisonment or a fine of £lOO. Mr. Meltzer said that the police and the department had had some difficulty in locating accused. lie was suffering from an incurable disease and had difficulty in getting about. He had no relations in the Dominion, and if the court could see its way to’deport accused without imprisonment the funds would oe forthcoming. If imprisoned accused would only become a charge upon the State.
At the suggestion of the Collector of Customs, the magistrate convicted the accused and ordered him to be deported to China.
Bail was allowed in the usual bonds provided for by the /Yet.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 201, 22 May 1931, Page 2
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234TO LEAVE DOMINION Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 201, 22 May 1931, Page 2
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