PINT OF MILK A DAY

Evening Star, Issue 19793, 17 February 1928, Page 11

PINT OF MILK A DAY

ALL HE HAD FDR FOUR DAYS

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CHRISTCHURCH, February 16. “If you were out of work for three weeks you would learn more than you would in three years of the legal profession,” said a judgment debtor when being cross-examined by Mr Brown at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. When asked what his occupation was debtor replied that he was an “ unregistered unemployed.” He said that he had done no work since last October. Mr Brown became curious to know how debtor had lived during that time. Debtor said he rented a room, which cost him Ids a week. He considered that, by living on 12s a. week he had reduced the problem of the cost of living to a fine art. Mr Brown; Yes; but how have you got tli© money to pay for the room if you have done no work? Debtor: “It is marvellous where I have got it from. I have sold all 1 could, and I have borrowed money from a friend.” Debtor added that the other day he collapsed on the floor of the office of a legal firm from weakness, due to lack of food. He was glad to borrow 2s to get something to cat. Debtor also stated that he had lived for four days on a pint of milk per day. Mr Brown: It seems to me that you protest too much. Don’t you hang about the town doing nothing? “The hardest work in the world is being out of work,” debtor replied. Mr Brown; How much do you spend a week on driiik? Debtor: I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and T don’t gamble. I can hardly afford to eat. Mr Brown: You go out with plenty of women.

Debtor strenuously denied this. Mr Brown; You have been seen at the theatre with them. Debtor again protested that this was untrue. Mr Brown : Have you any chance of getting work? _ • Debtor: 1 am sixty years old, so what chance have T of making a fresh start? If you could get me a job as a sandwich man 1 would jump at it. The magistrate refused to make an order.