Where no Debt Collectors are.
» The E'ysiutn of the unfortunate debtor dunned by the importuning debt-collector is the Barotongan Island?. In these happy isles the debt-collector is unknown, for the simple reason that the people there are entirely ignorant of any proper system of debt recovery. There is no Court of Justice to' which the debtor can be dragged for failure to pay; there are no lawyers— i not one — to bully and bewilder him into damaing admissions; and there is not even a gaol to send him to for failing to comply with the order of the Court if the Court did happen to exist. Judgeship among the chiefs is a sort of hereditary affair. If a native offends against the law he is hauled before a Judge -they are plentifnl enough —and he is fined. If he doesn't pay the fine, it is taken out in work. The Judge generally hopes he won't pay tha fine, for if he doesn't he can send him to hoe his yam patch, or prune his banana grove, or climb cocoanut palm 3 for the nuts, or do the week's washing, or any thing else that strikes him as requiring attention. Down Barotonga way a Judge does not require to employ much labour. Post.
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Manawatu Herald, 15 January 1898, Page 2
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212Where no Debt Collectors are. Manawatu Herald, 15 January 1898, Page 2
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