CHINESE FINED
DESERTER HARBOURED By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, May 15. At the Police Court the Magistrate, Mr J. R. Bartholomew, imposed the maximum penalty of £2O on a Chinese resident, George Yat Lee, charged with wilfully harbouring Leong Kam, a Chinese seaman, who deserted from the British ship Oil Reliance, and is awaiting deportation. The police stated that accused offered Kam a job in his garden, and hid him in the Chinese Mission Church. Kam handed over £2B to be sent to his wife in China, but the money was never sent. Moreover, while the hunt for Kam was on accused went to the detectives offering to find the deserter for £25, so that he was double-crossing his countryman. A serious aspect of the case was that It would cost the authorities £2OO to send the deserter back to China.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20109, 16 May 1935, Page 7
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140CHINESE FINED Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20109, 16 May 1935, Page 7
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