CHINESE IN NEW ZEALAND.

CHINESE IN NEW ZEALAND.

FIRST CASE OF ITS KIND

What was said to be the first case of its kind in New Zealand was mentioned before Mr Justice Chapman at the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday. The case was by way of appeal from a recent decision by Mr D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.. in fining a Chinese woman named Van Chu Lin for landing in New Zealand without having fulfilled the requirements of Section 42 of the Immigration Restriction Act (providing for the reading test). A similar appeal was made on behalf of a Chinese named Chan Yee Hop, who was fined for assisting the? woman to land. In the original case it was found that a Chinaman named Ah Young got letters of naturalisation in 1894, and left for China some four years ago, leaving his naturalisation papers with one Chan Bang Young. From the latter Chan Yee Hop got the papers, and he went to Sydney, where ho married Van Chit Lin, and returned with her to the Dominion. After hearing legal argument, his Honour reserved his decision.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3044, 13 September 1916, Page 4