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NZ Truth, Issue 110, 27 July 1907, Page 8

The policemen who joined thc "fooree" m 1906 were generally laborers, farm laborers, miners, artillerymen, butchers and. farmers. And people'wdll perstist m saying that the polioo are over-worked.

There is some consolation,- small, perhaps, hut still a kind of consolation, to be derived from the fact that it is not only -in New Zealand that the Chow, dear and dirty John Chinaman, is made muoh of and toasted and' buttered up as one of our leading and most prosperous townsmen. At Nhill (Vie.} recently, the Nihillists, they ought to be called Nihilists, met to make a presentation to Ah Looey Tin Hock (sounds awfully like tin-god), Ah Looey, etc., is the cheap vegetable alien, and he had lived at Nhill for 25 years. Mr C- H. Towns explained for the 250 ladies, disreputable females, every one of them, that, the dear, delighted creatures could not allow the iguest to depart for a 12-months' trip to China without giving him a presentation. He was known by everyone m Nhill to be the most charitable man m, the district, and was respected by all. Mrs W. G. Gunn then made the presentation, . which consisted of a gold chain and pendant, suitably engraved. The proceedings concluded by the singing of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and three cheers. Ah Looey _ Tin Hock, as' an expression of gratitude for the kindness of the townspeople towards him during his residence m Nhill, has invited .100 to a dinner on June 24 last at Kosminsky's Hotel. And it's to bf* fervently hoped that tho hundred choked themselves^