THREW BOTTLE

NZ Truth, Issue 1209, 31 January 1929, Page 5

THREW BOTTLE

Woman's Anger With Collector (From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch „-_.. Rep.) . In. a shop and dwelling house m Southwark Street, Christchurch, Sher Mohammed, a Punjabi Indian, plies the uninteresting, though probably lucrative,' trade of. a bottle collector. . . MOHAMMED has his days "at home" iVi when he is available to receive the empties m any .quantity. Annie' Tur pin, a Avell-known figure m Christchurch, conceived a novel way of delivering, an empty for which she was not paid. ; ."'-.'.' Mohammed has a licence to. trade as a dealer, and recently bought a clock from her for two shillings. Later m the day the woman, who had been drinking, desired to re-acquire the time-piece, but Mohammed, evidently appreciating a bargain, declined. She left the premises, and from the middle of the roadway heaved a bottle through the bottle collector's window. ' For this mischievious offence she was convicted and ordered to pay ten shillings to Mohammed for the damage to the window. . Forty-eight hours later : the woman was again roped m, on a third charge of drunkenness m six months, so Magistrate H. A. Young decided to terminate her prolonged holiday spree and sentenced her to a month's imprisonment with hard labor and issued a prohibition order against her.