BREAKING THE SABBATH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19282, 20 September 1924, Page 2

BREAKING THE SABBATH.

CHINESE OFFENDERS.

SUE TONG AND SWUNG CHUN.

Several residents of South Dunedin comglained to the police that Sufe Tong and iwung Chun persisted in digging their garden on the Sabbath Day, so in consequence of these complaints Sue and Kwung were hailed before the Police _ Court yesterday mornng and charged with working on a Sunday in view of a public place. Sue, the Senior-sergeant said, could speak English, but when asked a question he “no saveed,” and then reassumed his expression of the inscrutable East. Constable SchrufFer said that he had found Sue planting potatoes and Kwung breaking ground, work which they earned on during the week. They 1 * were ctnployers, and they also compelled their employees to work till 11 a.m, on Sundays in addition to the eight hours a day for six days of the week. Kwung, a less stolid Oelestial than his elderly partner, was more obliging, and modestly whispered his answers in a constable’s ear. Why do you work on Sunday? Velly poor. Can't get men to work during week. . Sue was still silent, whereat the Seniorsergeant remarked that they hawked vegetables round the town'daily and understood English quite well. The Magistrate: Whose prejudices have been offended? The Senior-sergeant explained that the residents had complained. The Magistrate: Of course gardening is a different matter. Continuing, he said that he did not propose to enter a conviction, and the charge would be dismissed. Kwung was then told to explain to his morose friend that hs most not dig on Sundays.