IDLE AND DISORDERLY
Accused't Name Suppreised "You come of a respectable family, and it- would.be a punishment on them for y tlie name to come out," said Mr* J. Miller, S.M., in the Napier Magistrate's Court this morning wheh granting an application by Mr. V. J. W. Langley for the suppression of the name of a man convicted of being an idle and disorderly person in that he had no lawful means of support. He was convicted and ordpred to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, on condition that he takes out ,a prohibition order and went to work. Senior-Sergeant W. Pender stated that the accused, accompanied by his 12-year-old son, had for the past eight months being going about from place to place among the Maoris. He had been warned ,by Constable Walden to fxnd work and do something for the boy, but did not do so. The constable took the boy(to France House. "If he earns anythjng from time to time he spends it in the hotels," he concluded. Accused was of a very respectable Hastings family, said Mr. Langley, and as both his parents were past the age of 80, the trouble had caused them considerable pain, and he asked for the suppression of the name.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 6
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