DODGING WORK

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 336, 24 September 1932, Page 5

DODGING WORK

.Press. Assn.-

MARRIED MAN refuses TO TAKE work in RELIEF CAMP GETS SIX MONTHS IN GAOL

— By Teleg'-aph — Oopvrlgbt^.

Hamilton, Friday. John Wilson stoutly refused the ulvice of Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., c go into a married men's camp, w'hen he appeared in the Hamilton 1 Jagistrate's Court to-day. Wilson. was charged with being in •rreais to the extent of £14 in his .vife's maintenance and £4 10s in ar- . ears in respect of his child. Wilson told the court that he had uade every endeavour to obtain work. Air the past three months he had >een living in a "bach" and obtaining neals from his friends. Ilis Worship: Cadging your meals Tom friends. Defondant: Yes. What about a married men's eamp? — I am not fit to go into a married nen's camp. I have a very bad back, four Worship. His Worship: If you can wield a dasher for five months, as you have been doing, there cannot be much .vrong with your back. Do you know »vhat you will have to do in a camp? — No. You do not know what you will have to do! Well, what do you proooso to do now? — I will try to find .vork on the No. 5 scheme. Working with pick and shovel? — Yes, anything. What about your back? That is as drenuous a type of work as you lould get. — I will work according to how I feel. That means you wjll work when you l:eel like it? — No, I will knock off and go homo when my back troubles me. Well, you will have to go where /our wife and child can get some naintenancc — from the Prisons Deoartment. It is ridiculous for you to :a!k as you have done. You are coniemned out of your own mouth. You say you do not kno'w what lcind of .vork you will have to do in a camp and yet hold that you could not stand up to it. You will be sentenced :o six months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentence to be concurrent. I do not think you have been trying for the last three months.