CONFIDING CHINESE.THE VICTIMS OF TRICKSTERS. LOOTED BY WILE AND BY FORGE. AT PANMURE AND POINT CHEVALIER. Two well-dressed and well-groomed men named Cecil Love (271 and George S. Ormiston (30) came before Mr. J. E. Wilson. S.M., yesterday, on tour charges of having obtained money from Chinese by false pretence and  five charges of having stolen money from the dwellings of Chinese. The charges were that they had stolen it from Sing Bung's dwelling at Panmure. £23 from Ah Ling's in the same locality, and sums of £3O and 50/ from the habitations of Tam Ark and Fong Ark at Point Chevalier. The false pretences alleged against them were that they represented in one ease, they landed a shipment of rice from Japan, and in other cases that they were representatives of Smeeton's Ltd., and supplying such articles as starch, rice, etc. 'STIFF LUCKWITHOUT STARCH. Din Lee, a laundryman of Jervois Road, said that on August 4, Love called at his laundry, said he was representing Smeeton's Ltd., and was selling a good line of starch at £3 10/ per cwt. Witness agreed to get a hundred-weight, and paid down £3 7/0 in advance, but no star r h had been delivered. There was another man with Love at the time. Law Lee, another laundryman in the same street, gave evidence of having paid 10/ deposit for starch on the same misrepresentation made by the two accused, and having got nothing for his money. Joe Sing, of Albert Street, told a- story of having been "starched"' in similar style by Ormiston for a £5 deposit. The manager of Smeeton's, Ltd., F. W. Riach, declared that the accused were absolute strangers to him, and had never been employed by his firm. A LITTLE HALF-TON ORDER. Wah Sung, market gardener of Mangere, stated that both accused called at his place, and stated that they had just landed a shipment of rice from Japan which they were selling at £150 a ton. They said they had a shop in Shortland Street, and would deliver next day any rice he might order. He ordered half a ton of rice at the price mentioned, and paid £10 on account, for which he got a receipt. The rice did not arrive.

CHASED BY CHINESE. The evidence as to the theft went to indicate that having spied out the land, in August and early in November, by wile and with a profit of about £1S odd, the accused turned their attention to physical force for further profit. On November 21, said Tam Ark, gardener of Point Chevalier, the accused tried to sell him rice, but he declined to do business, and they left him in the garden, going away in a direction that would lead them past his house. Half an hour later he went to the house and found that a box in his bedroom had been broken open, and £30 taken. A £20 note was included in the money stolen Mong Yee, gardener, of Tamaki, said that just before noon on November 25 he noticed a man standing near his house. Witness was a distance away at the time and went to the house, whereon Ormiston accosted him and asked him if he wanted to buy rice. He declined and went into the house where he found Love in one of the rooms. Love asked him if he wanted to buy rice and he declined again. Love then walked out and witness followed him, till Ormiston pulled out a revolver and pointed it at him. Witness was carrying a knife at the time. He called other Chinese, and a number of them followed the accused for about a mile before they got away. When witness got back to his house he found that £2 in silver had been stolen from a box in his room. A COVERING TRADE NAME. Further evidence showed that on November 21. the accused were seen in the vicinity of Fong Art's house at Panmure, and after their departure 50/ was found to be gone from a box in the house. On November 27 the accused Were seen by Chinese driving from the houses of Ah Ling and Sing Sung at Panmure, while the Chinese were at work in their market gardens, and the Celestials at once went to their habitations to find that £14 had been taken from Sing Sung's place and £23 from Ah Ling's, the money in each case having, been taken from boxes in the bedrooms.  Detectives De Norville and Lambert were informed, and they traced the horse and gig, and eventually found that accused were purporting to trade as '-'Rogers and Co." with offices in Wellesley Chambers. A visit to their office resulted in the finding of a I couple of revolvers and ammunition, I while one of the Chinese boxes which j had been stolen bodily was found hidden in a tree at Panmure-When taxed with the thefts and frauds the accused eventually admitted them. The accused pleaded guilty, and were committed to the Supreme Court  for sentence. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 298, 16 December 1919, Page 16

DEPARTURES—This Day. Ulimaroa, for Sydney, 11.25 a.m. Passengers

 DEPARTURES—This Day. Ulimaroa, for Sydney, 11.25 a.m. Passengers

Mrs. Dan Yen, Miss A. Wah Lee, Miss N. Wah Lee, Miss M. Wah Lee, Miss A. Wah Lee, Master R. Wah Lee,  Mr. C. Wah Lee, Mr. P. Chin Bow, Mr. G. Wah Lee, Mr. Dan Yen 

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 55, 6 March 1931, Page 4

Lee Pak Wah, a Chinese aged 19, will have to take his departure for China, where there is much conflict at present, within one month, or suffer the consequences. He was charged with remaining in New Zealand longer than entitled to by a temporary permit, which expired on August 20 last. Mr, Goodall appeared for Lee Pak Wah who entered a plea of guilty.

The Collector of Customs at Auckland, Mr. Penn, who prosecuted, stated that Wah's permit was extended to August 20 of last year. He should have left New Zealand by then, but had not done so, while he also had failed to report himself. He was liable to imprisonment for twelve months, or a fine of £100.

Counsel said that accused stayed with his two brothers, who formerly kept a fruit shop in Symonds Street. They used his money in their business, and also the money which had been sent to accused from Sydney to pay his fare back to China. They were now somewhere in the King Country. Lee Pak Wall had lost all his money. A friend of his was going to Sydney to-day by the Marama, and hoped to get enough money to send the accused his fare back to the Flowery Land. In the meantime accused was being assisted by some Chinese Masonic friends. Two sureties could be found at £50 each to guarantee that accused would leave for -China within a month. Mr. Goodall suggested that a small fine should be inflicted.

This was acceptable to the Collector of Customs, and Mr. Hunt imposed a fine of £5 and costs 7/, ordering accused to find two sureties of £50 each that he would leave the Dominion within a month. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1927, Page 3

CHINESE GIRLS THROUGH PERILS TO AUCKLAND

CHINESE GIRLS THROUGH PERILS TO AUCKLAND SOME 15 years ago two young Chinese girls, Alice Wah Lee and Nancy Wah Lee, accompanied by other members of their family, left New Zealand for China. A few days ago the two sisters completed the return journey under vastly different conditions.

The journey began months ago and has involved travelling by river boat, train, aeroplane and ocean-going steamer.

They were in Hongkong studying at a convent in December, 1941, when the city was attacked. On Monday, December 8, one of the girls was half-way to school when the .first Japanese bombing raid was carried out, the objective of the Japanese on this occasion being the airfield. The attacks came as a surprise, and at first the general feeling was one of bewilderment.

On the following day there was a great scramble to buy foodstuffs and other necessitites, and shops were emptied of their stocks in half an hour. The Japanese then started to bomb the docks and barracks.

The girls, who, owing to the rush on the shops, had been unable to obtain food, were given a sack of rice and some bread by an English soldier prior to the Japanese occupation. The rice was destroyed by a bomb, but they were able to reiain the bread.

Then the land fighting began. The fiat in which they were living was situated in Happy Valley, between the British Army and the Japanese. The flat shook constantly from gun fire and falling bombs. During this time the girls slept fully dressed, their pockets crammed with toast and dry bread. The building was hit, but they miraculously escaped injury, and they went to stay Avith friends. They were in constant danger of death from bullets. "Stinking Horribly" The day Hongkong was taken there was very heavy fire in the morning, but in the afternoon this ceased. They thought the Chinese Army had attacked and the Japanese were retreating. Soldiers'came into sight and in the distance the girls thought they were Chinese, but they proved to be Japs. One of the girls described them as "looking like monkeys and stinking horribly." They had obviously been plundering en route, for all had their pockets bulging with loot. Some had half a dozen wrist watches, practically covering their forearms. Others had numbers of fountain pens clipped in their pockets. Others again carried perfumes and powder, and if they took a fancy to a girl they would shake these over her.

They came into the house and stared at the girls and their friends, and then ordered them outside while they searched the place. The Japanese made them line up in a row and then stood in front of them, training a machine gun on them, but after scaring them ordered them back to the house. When drunk the Japanese would wail that they would lose in the end and the Chinese would win, and they would moan over the thought of losing their wives and homes. The house was visited a second time by Japanese soldiers, but these did no more than look around and ask questions. Nevertheless, the experience was very frightening. Japanese Barbarity They could hear girls screaming and crying from the agonies. of torture by the Japanese. The whites, however, suffered most of all. The Canadian soldiers had to exist on half a bowl of congee (rice boiled to a very thin consistency) daily, and were made to stand in trenches, where they were buried up to their heads and tortured. Civilians were killed like pigs, ohers were cut to pieces, others had ears lopped off. The Japanese were frightened of the population getting out of hand as a result of the food shortage, and their policy was to remove those who were not engaged in important undertakings in Hongkong. Those remaining faced dire consequences if they did not obey the Japanese.

Three Chinese doctors prominent in the community refused to accompany the Japanese to Burma. One had his fingers chopped off, another was disembowelled, and the fate of the third was not known. The Japanese also collected captives for forced labour in Burma.

The Italians and Germans were the only white people allowed to go free. They were given white armhands to distinguish them from the other Huropeans.

In order to reduce the population the Japanese started running refugee boats, and to get on these boats thousands of refugees collected at the wharves. Many people wore killed by the Japanese clubbing them on the head in efforts to control the mob. A large number of old people and children were trampled to death.

The two girls spent three days and three nights on the wharf before they were able to get aboard one of the boats. The journey from Hongkong to their home at Toishan, which normally took a day and a half, occupied ten days, but they were quite well treated.

The girls later went to Kukong to continue their studies at the University, but there they were subject to bombing and machine-gunning three times a day. There was no special military objective, but hundreds of houses were burned. Delayed action bombs were also dropped, and at first many were killed when looking at these. Journey to New Zealand Starts The girls' brother in New Zealand decided that they should join him out here, and with the assistance of another sister, attached to the U.S. Army in Chungking, was successful in making the arrangements. From Kukong the girls travelled for two days in a train to Kweiling, in Kwansi Province. There they boarded a U.S. Army plane for Kunming, in Yunnan Province. They crossed the Himalayas by plane and suffered from bleeding noses and ears in the rarefied air. In Calcutta the warmth of the hospitality of the Indians left nothing to be desired, but with true Indian courtesy they insisted on feasting the girls on large quantities of heavily curried Indian foods, and according to the custom the hosts themselves placed the fcod in the girls' mouths, with the result that the sisters were bespattered with food, while the curry brought tears. On the last stage or the journey, aboard ship, the elder of the girls proved a bad sailor, but the youngerhad a royal time, the captain taking a special interest in the two refugees. At Premantle they were entertained by the Chinese Consul, and at Sydney were interviewed by a representative of a Chinese newspaper.

The girls recalled that time after time in the adventurous weeks since December, 1941, they had escaped death by a hair's breadth. After each escape they would look at each other amazed to find they were still alive.

On every hand they found kindness as they travelled. It made no difference whether they sought assistance from Chinese, British, American or Indian—all helped the two sisters. New Spirit in China They did not, however, leave China without regret. There was a new and vital spirit in China. Men, women and children were all in the fight, and despite seven long years of war and suffering all were as determined to continue resistance to the end. The position of women in China had changed. To-day, encouraged by the bravery and devotion to duty of the "First Lady" of China, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, they were taking part in war activities of all kinds, even to fighting. Reconstruction, too, was being planned. The west was being opened up, and migration there encouraged by the Government. Free schools had come into existence, and the Government was sending its university graduates overseas for further training, so that they might return to China able to give the best possible assistance in rebuilding the country.

CHINESE GAMBLERS.RAID ON A GAMING HOUSE THIRTY CHINAMEN ARRESTED
AND FINED.

Last night about 10 o'clock a party of Auckland uetectives and police, under Chief Detective Grace, raided a house occupied by a -Chinaman named Ah Yong in Wakefield-street, and after an exciting scene arrested a large number of Chinese on charges of being found hi a gaming house. When the police entered the house the game of fan-tan was proceeding and the place was full of players. A scene of great excitement followed, and the china: icn rushed for the doors and windows, but at every point they ..ere met.^by the police, and were soon handcuffed and marched down to the lock-up. The banker was found hiding under the gaming table. A considerable sum of money was found in me room, and a fan-tan gambling set was also taken. The Chinese were subsequently all bailed out by their friends.
The folio-wing- arc the names of the Chinese arrested: —Ah Cow. 64; Ah Yew, '61, cook; All Shee, 37, shopman; Yet Gee, 55, gardener; Ah Sin", 23, gardener; Tei Wah 40, cook; Sing Yet, 32, laundryman; "Willie Goorn, ;)0. gardener; All Tan, 28, gardener; Ah Way, 55, gardener; Chin Sing-, 33, gardener; Leng Kum, 39, gardener; Ah Hing, 40, gardener; Ah Wong, 30, gardener (the banker); Yet Lee 50, gardener; Ah Young. 22, gardener; Mcc Ivee, 40, laundryman; Ah Ling, 40. cook; Ah San, 42, grocer and doctor; All Yong, 4;), grocer (keeper of we house); Len Sing, 36, gardener; Len Gee, 41, gardener; Ah Ling, 34. gardener; Sling Sue, 3:5, gardener; Bing Chew, 'O, gardener; Ah Lean. 40, gardener; Ah Choy, 52, g-ardener; Lue AYong-, 50, grocer; Young Chin, 48, grocer; Ah Low, 45, gardener; Chin Chin, gardener. The Chinamen were all lined up at the Police Court this morning before Mr Brabant, S.M. Mr ,T. C. Martin appeared for the accused and pleaded guilty on their behalf. The bulk of the men were charged with being found in a common gaming house without lawful excuse. Ah Wong was charged with being the banker of the gaming house, and two of the others as his assistants.
Mr Martin said the Chinamen arrested were npfc a nuisance to the street, and there were no Europeans, either girls or men, in the house. This was the Chinese New Year holiday season, and the prisoners were keeping holiday and nad met to celebrate in this fashion by playing the national game of fan-tan.
Mr Brabant fined the keeper of the house £25, the two assistants £3 each, Yet Gee (twice previously convicted) £?j, Ah Yen and Ah Shee (previously convicted) £2 each, and the rest, of the accused £1 each.
Chief Detective Grace said there was sufficient money found in the establishment and on prisoners to pay the fines. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1902, Page 8

CHINESE CASE.
ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.
Mr. Kettle, S.M., held an early sitting at the Auckland Police Court this morning to deal with a case in wh'ch two young Chinamen named Mung You and All Fong were charged with assaulting Ah Ming in a house in Wakefield-sfcreet o:a Sunday night last and robbing him of a £10 note.
Sub-Inspector Black prosecuted, and Mr. J. C. Martin appeared for the accused.
Ah Ming said he was sitting in the house of Ah Mcc in Wakefield-street at about nine o'clock on Sunday evening playing with dominoes, when the two accused men came in. Mung You caught him by the throat and'dragged him to the floor, while Ah Fong kicked him and took a £10 note from his pocl&t. In the struggle Ah Ming got up and rushed to an adjoining room, but Mung You followed him, caught hold of him, and threw him down again. Another Chinaman named Gum Sing then separated them, and witness cleared off by a back door and complained to the police. In company with Sergeant Hansen he returned to the house, but found they had disappeared. They were traced, and 'found in some Chinese houses in Hobson-street and Victoria-street, and were there arrested.
To Mr. Martin: Witness said the £10 note which was taken from him was got by him from the machine on the racecourse at the last Avondale race meeting. He had formerly been working in the gardens, but had been ill lately, and was not now working. lie. however, possessed 100 when he left Victoria-street over a year aio, but did not bank it. He could not name anybody who could confirm his statement that he possessed this sum of money, unless it were Ah Sam, his former partner, whose whereabouts he did not now know. It was not true that he borrowed money flora Mr. Nerheny when he left Victoriastreet, to stock his shop with bananas, nor did he owe any rent to Mr. Nerheny. Shortly afterwards he went to Wellingtion to get work, but failed to find it. It was not true that he kept a brothel there, or was ordered by the police to leave Wellington under threat of prosecution. He went on to Stratford, and soon afterwards returned to Auckland, residing at different times at Victoriastreet, Chapel-street. Ponsonbv. Archhill, and Grey-street. It was true that while at Ponsonby he was arrested, but it was not for having two girls there who Were under the age of consent. There was one girl there—she was 19 years of age. He was not aware that it was found that she was only one month over age. While in Victoriastreet a girl was arrested in his house. He took between £7 and £8 to the racecourse at Avondale on the occasion previously refei'red to. and won about £30.
Ah Choy, a gardener of Alexandrastreet, said he witnessed the assault, and saw Ah Fong fe-el Ah Ming's pockets.
In reply to Mr Martin, His Worship said that on the evidence given by Ming he would not feel justified in convicting the men of the theft. But there appeared to have been an assault committed.
Mr Martin said the defence on thn' point was that the fight was the result of n dispute at dominoes.
Ming You was the first of the accused to be examined. He stated that he visited -Ah Jlee's house, where Ah Ming invited him to play dominoes. He consented. The stakes were 1/ a gamo, and witness won the first game and asked for the money. Ming refused, and swore at him, and witness knocked him down. Ah Fong pushed Ah Ming away, but did not kick him, and took no money. To Sub-Inspector Black: Witness was cousin to Wah Lee and witness knew that Wah Lee was fined recently for sly gvog-selling. He understood that Ah Ming was the informant on that occasion, but that wa.3 not the reason of the assault on Ah Ming. All Fong gave similar evidence. His Worship at this stage said he considered that the prosecutor, All Ming, had exaggerated the a-ssault, which evidently arose out of a dispute at dominoes. He was not satisfied that Ah Fong to-ok an} part in the assault, and he would be dismissed. Ming You was obviously provoked by the prosecutor, but he was not justified in committing the assault. He would be fined £1. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 269, 10 November 1905, Page 2

NORRIE AND I. RUSSELL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS TECHNICAL COLLEGE CARNIVALS.
Seven hundred students of the Seddon Memorial Technical College competed in the annual swimming championships yesterday, the boys at Nawmarket Olympic Pool, and the girls at Shelly Beach. The individual champions were:—  50 yards breaststroke: D. Norrie. 1; R. Wah Lee 2; I. Botica, 3. Time, 42 3-ss.