A CHINESE GRIEVANCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2615, 24 September 1909, Page 2

A CHINESE GRIEVANCE.

MR. HWANG INTERVIEWED. In an interview in Christchurch, Mr. Yung Liang Hwang, Chinese ConsulGeneral for the Dominion, was asked if the Chinese in New Zealand felt that they, as a race, had any grievance. He replied that” many of them suffered from the annoyance of “hoodlums” and “larrikins,” but he believed that the Courts were always just. If any grievances existed they were,. of a personal character, and were not of great importance. From his observations, he concluded that in most of the cases in which Chinese were concerned, Hbo Courts were very just. He referred to two cases, however, in which, he thought, something should he done for the Chinese. In one case, he had just visited the premises of a Chinese storekeeper, in which five or six window panes had been broken and nothing had been done by the police to punish the offenders. The police ought to have taken the matter in hand. That kind of thing, it was felt, created a bad impression. The other case he referred to occurred recently at Vno Ist on, where several Chinese were held up by two men, who represented that they were constables, and who intimidated the Chinese into giving up a fairly large sum of money, of which they -were robbed. The victims of tho impudent robbery had communicated with him, and lie had replied' advising them to try and get the robbers identified, so. that a prosecution might follow.