NEWS AND NOTES.
■ ••Don't you find they put the balance of the cakes in their pockets.” queried Mr Justice Reel in the Auckland Supreme Court of a tearoom proprietor, who had stated that lu- was m the habit oi putting !1 lull plate <>! cakes on the table for his customers , state:the "New /calami Herald”). He added that not all the cakes were eaten, perhaps only one or two. -n that he made a profit, and the customers did not receive any impression of meanIIO". 11l reply to Ilis Honour, witness said that people were not allowed to take anything away in their pockets.
A iTemuera resilient was accosted the other day by a well-built young man, who asked, “Can you give me ;i job:’ I’m starving.” He told the man to conic out to his place and |,e would give him a good feed and 7> lor digging round the fruit trees. The dinner was provided (relates the "Auckland Star") and then the man sot to work. He was so fond of his job. or else had eaten too big a dinner. that half an hour later he was found lying down last asleep, having onlv turned over three suits of earth.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1924, Page 3
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