LATE LOCALS.
At the Licensing Bench meeting this morning the police reports, affecting the various hotels in the district, mentioned that they were eminently satisfactory.
“Here! That’s my dog!” Pardon me. the animal is mine!” This in the •Square, Palmerston North, the parties concerned in the dispute being two ladies and a dog. It appeared that the plaintiff claimed as her properly a porky Pomeranian puppie tied by a | in!; ribbon att.-n bed to tile wrist of the defendant. “Possession is nine points ol the law/ said defendant heatedly. “The question is, how did you conic into possession ?’’ retorted plaintill' with equal vigour. Rapid-fire comI liments were exchanged, and the police station was mentioned several time, when the defendant suddenly had tin inspiration. “Has your dog "bite hairs on its underneath ?” “It litis!” was the instant reply. “Then this one hasn't.” announced the other triumphantly and promptly turned “Perky Pom’ upside down, /thereby proving an alibi. An hour later the ladies "ere observed burying the hatchet in a popular tearooms!
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1924, Page 3
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