SING ON SINGS ANOTHER TUNE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6665, 19 July 1928, Page 2

SING ON SINGS ANOTHER TUNE

TWO MONTHS HARD FOR MUSICAL CHINAMAN. . A young Chinaman bearing tie melodious name of Sing On took his stand in the Magistrate’s Court dock yesterday morning in an endeavour to explain to Mr. J. L. Stout S.M. Ms reasons for absconding with a gramophone valued; at .£l3' the property of Wm. Thomas Oates of Palmerston North. On a further charge of tho theft of two watches valued at £5 7s. 6d from one Umberto Imperatrice, Sing On was remanded to appear : 'at " Auckland on July .20. . Somor Detective. Qitirke. told the Magistrate that Sing On’s name was really 'Something much less musical. Sing On, he evidently thought, an appropriate designation for the would-be purchaser of a gramophone. Sing: On’s carolling was evidently successful, for he obtained his gramophone which he promptly proceeded to transform into hard cash at a second-hand dealers. Sing On., said Detective (Juifko, or Bengcbu as his name really was, had two previous convictions against Ms name.- • ■■ ‘

( Through the medium of an interpreter,' Sing On told the Court that he had lost* some money when travelling to Palmerston North. He had been unable to borrow from Ms countrymen, sd he ha’d resorted to the ■ expedient of obtaining a . gramophone and selling it for hard cash. ■■■■' ; •

V His'Worship imposed a pbnalty of two months hard labour in Auckland gaol.>'- . r .