Perfect Peace

NZ Truth, Issue 1192, 4 October 1928, Page 7

Perfect Peace

•THAT there is "one law for men 1 and another for women," is the bitter opinion of Islay Muriel Boyes, married, woman, residing at Dunedin. And she hurled it at Magistrate Bundle the other morning, as she stood, fur- coated, m the dock of the Dunedin police court m answer to a charge of being found drunk. It seems that Islay is lamentably fond , of her 'ops, as a recentlyexpired prohibition order indicates. But when Senior-sergeant Quartermain suggested a repetition of the court's restraint upon her potatory pathway, Islay waxed resentful. "I had more liquor than I have ever had m my life, when I .was prohibited, through people slinging off. I .don't want liquor — I want peace!" exclaimed the lady, midst 6obs. Senior-sergeant: The constable tells me that you pawned the coat you are wearing to get money for liquor? Accused: I had two black eyes when I did pawn it. Evidently Islay was hinting at some little domestic ' differences which so often form the foundation for that age-old excuse— "driven to drink." She was convicted and discharged.