HALF-CASTE HYBRIDS

NZ Truth, Issue 508, 13 March 1915, Page 9

HALF-CASTE HYBRIDS

Christchurch Chow's Culpability

White Women's Weird Ways

(From "Truth's" ChrLstchurch Rep.)

teveu Christchurch, despite its church and puraon clokod atmosphere, is plentifully punctuated with halfcaste hybrids, produced through the intermingling of St. Asaph-street Chowdom with the whites. Slanteyed yellow kids are not at all uncommon In certain parts of the Christchurch Chow quarters. "Inn . m most cases they are legitimate offspring uf "square dinkum" marriages which have neon solemnised between Chows and white women by parsons whoso pulpit- pounding prattle labels degeneration as a heathen or immoral element. Not a few of the half-caste youngsters, however, are illegitimate, although the paternal parent's ability to pay handsome sums towards his offspring's maintenance generally silences the mother and prevents ihn public from being- given a. fair idea of the. SEDL'CTUVHN.ESS <■"'' Tll1 ' 1'1"-M'-fcJHJUK-ASIATIC. Last week an ohl. wizened Chow named Charlie Young, with a face like a sun baked orange, was proceeded against' in the Magistrate's Court for arrears of maintenance amounting to Mil Its Ud, ill respect to his illejfitimale child which was born to him by :i white woman a couple <>f years ago. It was fxplained I bat Young was a hawker and that the high price, of vegotablcs made it "allc; sam.i pletiy damn hard to pay up." Heak Bishop, however, looked at the case m another Hslit. He reckoned that if Charlie dldn'l pny for the ki<llot tin 1 (Jovernmfnt would hay« to do no, which meant that the people of Xi-w Zealand were asked to pay for a CHINAMAN'S UAAX.IA], AML'SKMKNTS. No d timed fonr! Charlie would bo aentenced 'to thrcft months' ciuod In default of jiayment, the warrant to be suspended whilst he paid off the arrears at fi* n week.