The 'Far Eastern Review" states: "It may astonish the housewife who pays 2/- a dozen to know that eggs delivered at the doors of this plant are only 13/9 a thousand and that in summer the price sometimes goes down as low as twelve dozen eggs for 2/1. And these are "fresh egge ivhich the grocers would label 'strict!/ fresh eggs,' since in China, a land where everything is upside down to foreign nations, the older an egg is the more valuable it becomes, and eggs guaranteed to be at least 100 years old are served as delicacies at Chinese banquets, while the fresher the egg the cheaper it is. All the processes of drying and preservation are carried qn under systems of sterilisation."  Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 18, 20 January 1917, Page 4

An Opunake Chinese storekeeper announces—" Goods to suit the ladies; prices to suit the gentlemen." 
Manawatu Times , Issue 7909, 19 January 1904, Page 2

Feom returns furnished to a Southern contemporary, it appears that the Chinese population of Otago amounts to 2606. The journal from which we quote estimates 700 oz. of gold per week as the produce of the Celestial population—the greater portion of which they hoard, wi h the view of removal to their country. On the 30th of December, sixty-seven Chinese took their departure from Dunedin for Melbourne, en route for China, having made a very handsome sum amongst them at the diggings. New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1877, 21 January 1870, Page 4

The arrivals for 1908 alone totalled 589, and of that number 538 were Chinese. The education test, however, proved its value, for in 1909 only 171 Celestials succeeded in gaining admittance, which was the smallest number for the past six years. The estimated number of Chinese in the Dominion at the end of last year was 2,824, including 67 females, but judging by the few arrivals since the beginning of 1909, the education test has practically stopped the immigration of Asiatics to New Zealand.  Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9263, 15 July 1910, Page 4

RETAIL PRICES STRONG PROTESTS MADE
Strong protests against allegations at the conference of the Dominion Council of Commercial Growers that retailors throughout New Zealand were making excessive profits by buying goods at low prices and reselling at ceiling prices, were made at the annual conference of the New Zealand Federation of Retail Fruiterers and Greengrocers, which ended in Wellington yesterday. Delegates stressed that at present retailers were paying ceiling prices for goods of decidedly inferior quality, of which only; a very small proportion could be sold at ceiling prices if at all. One statement had alleged that cabbages bought at Is a bag were retailed at 3d a pound. That implied that all the cabbages were in good condition and were saleable, but in such cases the position was that only a small number of the cabbages were fit for sale. The selling of the few good cabbages at 3d a pound could not be considered excessive.
Retailers, it was stated, had paid up to 17s a cwt for cabbages, and still found only a small proportion saleable at any price. In support of this contention, cabbages grown by commercial growers and purchased this week in a Wellington city market at the ceiling price of 17s a cwt were displayed. Actually, not one of the cabbages was considered fit for resale. It had been suggested that retailers had purchased no tomatoes before the ceiling price was due to lift, and then bought in cheaply and sold at ceiling prices. Delegates gave a number of instances where tomatoes were not available due to commercial growers withholding supplies till the removal of the ceiling price. Officers elected were: President, Mr. J A. Stuart (Hamilton); vice-president, Mr. L. S Chanwai (Wellington): secretary. Mr. C. C. King (Auckland); council. Messrs. J. S. Roe and C. All Chee (Auckland), J. C. Kum and G. Nana (Wellington), H. R. Gallichan (Hamilton). W. Norman (Palmerston North). T. Louie (Westport), W. Bradshaw (Christchurch). Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1944, Page 5

COMPANY REGISTRATIONS.

The following new company registrations are among those published In the "Mercantile Gazette": Sack and Case (N.Z.), Ltd., Lower Hutt. Capital: £10,000 in shares of £1 each. Subscribers Wellington, Market Gardeners, Ltd., 5000; L. S. D. Chanwai, 20; A. D. McKay, W. Wah, 10 each; Paraparaumu, E. P. Vincent, 10; Lower Hutt, I. Ferretti, 10; Napier, A. young, 10. Objects: Purchase, sell, distribute, and collect, fruit, vegetables, garden produce, and flower containers, sacks, bags, and incidental. 
Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 54, 1 September 1945, Page 8

NATIONALITY A CHINAMAN'S DIFFICULTY

 VISIT OF CHILDREN TO CHINA,

Interesting points as to nationality were argued before the Full Court to-day, when a Chinaman, Joe Lum, storekeeper, of Wellington, raised the question in an action between himself and the Attorney- General. On. the Bench were the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), Mr. Justice Cooper, Mr. Justice Sim, and Mr. Justice Herdman. Sir John Findlay, K.C., with him Mr. A. de B. Brandon, appeared for Lum, while Sir John Salmond, Solicitor-General, represented the Crown.

The facts of the case are that Joe Lum is an unnaturhlised Chinese resident of Wellington, who married Chu Ah Nui in New Zealand on 28th November, 1905. Six children have been born in Wellington. Lum is now about to visit China, taking with him his infant children, whom he intends to leave in China for some years for the purpose of being educated in their native tongue. On application to the Customs Department, Lum was informed that unless the children return to the Dominion within four years after registering of their names in accordance with section 2 of the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908, they will not be allowed to land in New Zealand except on payment of the poll-tax of £100, and on passing the test imposed by section 31 and 42 respectively of the Immigration Restriction Act. According to Lum, it is not improbable that circumstances will keep the children in China for longer than four years. The Court was asked for an order interpreting the enactment, and, in particular, determining (1) whether, in the event of a person bom in New Zealand of Chinese parents not nationalised under the Aliens Act, 1908, and leaving New Zealand while an infant, and returning to Now Zealand while still an infant to rejoin his or her parents, poll tax will be payable in respect of these persons (a) if such person complies with the requirements of subsection la of section 2 of the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908, (b) if such person complies with all the requirements of the subsection except the requirements as to return within four.years, (c) if such person fails to comply with any of the requirements of the said subsection; (2) whether, in the event of such person leaving New Zealand while an infant, and returning after attaining 21 years of! age without having renounced or lost his or her British nationality, poll tax will be payable in respect of such person (a)_ if such person complies with the requirements of subsection 1 (a) of section 2 of the Immigration Restriction Act Amendment, 1908, (b) if such person complies with the requirements of the subsection, except the requirements as to l .turn within four years, (c) if such person fails to comply with any of the requirements of-tho subsection.

Sir John Findlay said the central question was whether the children in the case were Chinese. He react the definition attached to the Immigration Restriction Act, and said that these children, having been born in New Zealand, were British subjects. If the action of the Customs Department was upheld it might equally be held that any New Zealander leaving the country might be treated as an immigrant upon his return. Sir John Salmond, K.C., said that his construction of the Act imposed no hardship on anyone. Tho Act contained the fullest power for discretionary exemption in all proper cases. If it was deemed proper to allow a young Chinaman to leave the country and return later without restriction, there was power, under the Amending Act of 1910, to allow him to do so. It must not be understood, however, that he could do this of his own right. In the present case, for instance, these young Chinamen might, by virtue of their education in China, lose all trace of European customs and education, and might return to the Dominion essentially Chinese.

The Court reserved its decision,

 Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 149, 26 June 1919, Page 8

IMMIGRATION ACT. DEFINITION OF "CHINESE." [PRESS  ASSOCIATION]
WELLINGTON, Jury 8. The Court of Appeal to-day delivered judgment in the case of Joe Lum v. the Attorney-General. This was an originating summons to determine the meaning of the definition of "Chinese in the Immigration Restriction Act.
The facts were that a Chinaman married here .wished to send his children, all born in New Zealand, to China to be educated, and the question was whether, if they did not return to New Zealand within four years they cause under the definition and would be subject to the restrictions of the Act.
The Court held that the children in such' case would not come under the restrictions of the Act.  Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 191, 9 July 1919, Page 5