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CHINESE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE.
WELLINGTON, March 4.
When tihree Chomese appeared at the Police Court to-day charged with having sold pak-a-poo lottery tickets, the first one asked to plead maintained a stolid sHence % It was found that the only man who could speak Chinese and! English had been retadned as interpreter to counsel for the defence.
The S.M. remarked that there was evidently a conspiracy of silence, and adjourned the cases until <fche 22nd inst. to enable the police to secure an interpreter.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9308, 5 March 1907, Page 7
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83CHINESE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9308, 5 March 1907, Page 7
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