MAKING ENDS MEET.
■ (By Telesraph.-Snccial Correspondent.} Auckland, ,Ttily IG. A forcible address on tho difficulties which he had experienced in malting both ends meet was delivered by an indignant witness in (lie Magistrate's Court on Sal11rd.1v. "Y<\: it is (rue that T have a farm," lie mkl, ,n answer to one question, "but it is over-run with blackberries and vveedn. J. (let. up nt four o'clock and do work elsewhere, and all ] can make is .t'fl a. week. My wife is on Hie Kick bed; eleven children to keen, "»d one of them is nn invalid. I am payin:; off a heavy medical bill by ivisluliuonta, and assisting my son anil his sick wile in Wellingion. What else can .1 do? If you force me to nay in the present case, I'm up against the wall." Defendant's story of his hardships was accepted, and the ini ovulation against him was dismissed.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1181, 17 July 1911, Page 4
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151MAKING ENDS MEET. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1181, 17 July 1911, Page 4
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