Poor old Chinaman! A market gardener named  Wong was before the Court yesterday on a charge of necessarily wasting water from the municipal supply. Mr. A. H. Johns!one. who appear",l for the defendant, undertook that no further waste would be allowed. and a necessary connection with a stopcock would be made. The Chinaman was fined 2s id and ordered to pay 7s costs. If the borough inspector looking for gardeners who waste the municipal water supply he needn't confine his attention to the ahnond-eyed gentlemen who "glow eabbagee
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 312, 11 February 1910, Page 4