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NZ Truth, Issue 129, 7 December 1907, Page 5

The Chow's pretended ignorance of the Law seems to stand him m good stead m New -Zealand. Two slant-eyes at Taihape the other day were caught doing a # roaring trade m rotten fruit, and ' when police-courted! said they- didn't know they were doing wrong. The moral irresponsibil-' lty of the Mongol seems to have weighed with the Beaks, who finerl the rotters a paltry five shillings and costs. If a white offered the same excuse he would he nromntlv snubbed. The Chow is admitted to the rights of the white man, but he doesn't get the justice a white man has dealt *to him. Some women are driven on to the streets by necessity, others are reduced to harlotry by a craving for beer, others again seek the illegiti-* mate caresses of men for the pure love of the thing. There didn't ap-*. pear to be any necessity for the un-> ohaste behavior of Annie Morelzne,, the respectably dressed wife of ait Adelaide Road dealer, who recentlyj haunted Courtenay Place at a late bour m quest of amorous men. ProbaVOvthe fact that she was blessot with no children had something Lv do with it, at anyrate, she fell int«« the arms of the police on two occasions and Tuesday last found her m the dock, when ' Magistrate Riddell imposed a fine of 40s, m da* fault tt«Ven Uy»i