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NZ Truth, Issue 1108, 24 February 1927, Page 7

% A SHOCK FOR "SMILER" WESTON I !.:/■:■. ' "■ - . ::-. " il' ,|| ; ■■•■"' (From "N.Z: Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative.) , || ' || "CMILE and the world smiles with you'' — sometimes. || ; !| Harry "Weston, of "Christchurch, believes m smiling. || || : It has become a habit with him, but he has discovered that :. || II the favorite motto of optimists does not always pan out to || If one's benefit. .. ' " . : If II So" optimistic was "Weston when he appeared before || II Magistrate Young m July last on a theft charge, that he jl || managed to smile his way into probation, conditional on his || || making restitution at the rate of half-a-crown weekly. ' \\ || And with smiling indifference Harry paid up the first If jf instalment and proceeded to forget all about it. <If I He also exhausted the patience of the probation. officer, || if whom he failed to interview on three specified occasions. || 1 . "And he. just smiles at me when I tell, him he is not || I keeping up his payments,'' was the officer's complaint when §§ I "Weston appeared, on a charge of failing to comply with the §§ I terms of his probation.! tl | Grinning broadly, he told the magistrate he could not || I get work. "Very Veil,'' snapped the bench, and Harry's :. || j grin vanished, "one month's imprisonment." ■ || IP.iiuimiiiiunnimiiiiiitimnniitn liiiiiiniiiiiiiiminitiuiiiiuiiiuiiMtMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiniiniiiii iiiiitiiliiniiitiutiliiuilliiliiiiiiliutiiiMillliiiiiitiiuiiiiiiiii^ c iiiJuniiuiuiuminiinnmiiMiHniiiimiMiiuiiiitJNw^^