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Otago Witness, Issue 3015, 27 December 1911, Page 31

Evidence- given in a case heard at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court threw some light on the wages paid to Chinese employed by their fellow countrymen as market gardeners. A Chinaman who acted as interpreter, after being duly sworn by blowing oxit a match, was asked at the end of his duties what his occupation was. He explained that he was foreman over plaintiff and others He drew 3Cfe per week and found, while the mere labourers were paid 25s and found. Complaint was made to the Wellington Hospital Board by a correspondent, who stated that his wife, after making a visit to the hospital, had found her good umbrella (which she had left outside, according to tho rules, on going in) had vanished, and that an inferior one hod beon left in its place. The board solemnly resolved that it could not accept eny responsibility in the matter.