A PECULIAR HOBBY.
WELLINGTON RESIDENT COL LECTS AND STORES RUBBISH. Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 5. “This is the most extraordinary caso 1 ever saw in my life, and undoubtedly the worst,” said Mr. McArthur, S.M., this morning, alter enquiring into a case in which a man named J. Phillips was charged .at tho Magistrate’s Court with keeping offensive rubbish on his premises. Tho garret of the house, it was stated, was found to be full of all kinds of rubbish, and the yard was alsofound to be in an unpleasant condition. llis Worship considered tinplace a menace to public health, and a fit case for the Health Department to take up. It was stated that accused had been previously fined, and he seemed to have a mania for collecting old rubbish and storing it in his bouse. Accused was fined the maximum amount, viz., £5.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2108, 6 February 1908, Page 2
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