SYDNEY HAWKERS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1933, Page 6

SYDNEY HAWKERS

COMPLAINTS IN SYDNEY.

QUESTION OF LICENCES

Impressed by the story of .a man who stole fowls from ia poultry, run, and then went to the front door of big victim and there sold the birds as “a real bargain,,” Judge Curlewis expressed the opinion in a Sydney Court recently; that all hawker s should he licensed, iij correspondent .says: ' ‘‘There are others who assert with pome, warmth that all hawkers who ‘work’ the suburban residences lihould be abolished.' They are a nuisance and often a •menace. They undoubiedly Scare, ”l;the women, and cause theni/itu’:i.buy "renngs not wanted. Women j are , afraid to refuse, fearing, if not phy-sicaT violence, then violent language/’ “The whole question will be considered as a result of Judge Qurlewis! remarks. He is k-novyn as a stern Judge, who is always just. He gives fi. direct summing up and a- clear conclusion without loquacity. Few guilty persons would- select Judge Curlewis to hear their trial, hut those knowing them- j selves to be innocent would (be glad of I his assistance in lelearing themselves. He is ndt backward in so aiding any entitled to kindly consideration, but the ‘tale-pitcher’ finds him : cold, austere, and slightly bitter/’