WELLINGTON SLUM LIFE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 14 March 1914, Page 5

WELLINGTON SLUM LIFE.

AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, March 13. "There are quite a number of white women living with such men as the ac.cused in this neighborhood," remarked Inspector Hendrey in the Magistrate's Court to-day, referring to a case in which a Chinese named Gee Guie pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting Kathleen yon. Cant. The woman had lived with the accused in Haining street for about three years, and it was alleged that Gee Guie had savagely assaulted her. Inspector Hendrey told the Court that in most cases white women who lived in Wellington's Oriental quarters were brutally treated by their alien lords and masters. The present case was a sample. The unfortunate woman in court was practically a slave to Gee Guie, who, lived on her ill-gotten earnings, and exercised over her his "right" as her Chinese lord to beat her. Detective Cassells gave accused a very bad character. The woman gave evidence that "it was nothing." Gee Guie, she said, was very drunk. Mr D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., said he was satisfied the accused knew what he was doing at the time of the assault, and imposed a fine of £5.