A Poor Drunk.
;To the Editor of the Times.)
Sir,— Referring to a local in the Poverty Bay Herald last evening anent the unfortunate drunk, the immortal Shakespeare says “ the quality of mercy is not strained, it falleth like the gentle dew from heaven upon the ground beneath, but when our worthy S.M. orders the police and the Clerk of Courts to search tho records for over 12 years it seems that it is not even justice, let alone mercy, as the law directs such a minor offence to be excluded from the police charge sheet if not recurring within 12 months, not 12 years as in this case. We should forgive and for"et, and allow erring humanity a chance and so carry out the teachings of the Great Master, as none of us are without fault,—l am, etc., _ A JUSTICE OP THE PEACE.
[A reference to the matter was made in our own columns, otherwise this letter would have been referred back to the writer for publication in the paper mentioned in order to comply with journalistic etiquette.—Ed. G.T.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1941, 24 November 1906, Page 3
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