DIFFICULT FOR DEBTORS.
AND HABD FOn PLAINTIFFS. . "Have you ever tried to live on £3 A week, with a sick wife and.two children, pay 18s. a week rent, chemist and doctor, and keep up a respectable appearance?" said Mr. Haselden to a solicitor who was applying for an .order against a debtor in the Magistrate's Court yesterday for amount owing on account of' a suit of 'clothes. The solicitor admitted that the position was a difficult . onu. "Uf 'course it's very hard on the plaintiffs,".said, the magistrate, "they have to pay wages, find material, and other things but 1 can't make an order in this- case." There were two other cases during the morning in which the magistrate refused an order, one being a case where a man with only one arm testified, that ho had not averaged more than JJI a week since Christmas, and was paying 15s. a week in rent, while he had a wile.and child to support. His son-in-law, ho snid, was contributing to his support.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 897, 17 August 1910, Page 4
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170DIFFICULT FOR DEBTORS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 897, 17 August 1910, Page 4
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