GIVEN A CHANCE
YOUNG MAN’S WANDERINGS
• JO GO TO|%ELiEF CAMP
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f WANGANUI, Aug. 3. Charged with being idle and disorderly,’and with the theft of a bottle of .whisky, a young man appeared in the Wanganhi Police C'ourit to-day. He': was convicted ! and: placed on proDstiqri ? for twelve months) ,ar condition of the probation being that he goes to ’ work in a relief camp. McLean said that the’ history of accused was a sad one. He- liad been brought -to New Zealand jfcwtf yerirs ago by relatives in Timaru had since died and he had been' ,iyahddnng ' country. Nine jponths ago h© Tiad found <1 job’ with a .Mabr'i a’t Kariangaroa, but he had ief|''it , end gone to-live With the Maoris. On July To * lie was found pnconseious fly the doadsade, having stolen a bottle of whisky from- a car. jjie. sririior-sergrinrit had 'been unable to trace any friends* or relatives of the young mAh. The ihagistrate,' -Mr? J. H. Salmon that accused was a likely young ma|f,; and 1 was capable of pulling himself' together.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1932, Page 3
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