COLOUR BAN AT A CAFE.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16444, 7 March 1925, Page 6

COLOUR BAN AT A CAFE.

. A summons against Chong Choy, licensee of a Chinese cafe in Oxford Street, London, for not _ maintaining good order and rule, “inasmuch as abusive language was used to two customers,” was dismissed at Marlborough Street Court. Mr Harry Evans, Stacey Street, Soho ( said that when he went to the cafe with a friend a-waiter refused to serve them and the manager used abusive language. His friend was a man of colour —a Britisli subject from Aden. Mr Frampton, for the defence, asked if he knew that men of colour had tried to dance with white women Mr" Evans: No, not particularly at the Chinese restaurant. Mr Frampton: Have you learned that some 1 customers have complained to the proprietors of men of colour forcing their attention on white girls’? —The Arst I have heard of it. Mr Mead, the magistrate, held that there was no breach of the license. He added, "No one would expect that people keeping a Chinese restaurant would discriminate as to colour. If those people wish to exclude people ol colour they should put up a notice to that effect.”