TWO MONTHS ON SIX SHILLINGS
HOW VAGRANT LIVED “NOT A CRIMINAL” As a man of only frugal requirements, Charles Fowler Gibb, aged 31, would take some beating. In the Police Court this morning, when he appeared for sentence on being deemed a rogue and vagabond, it xvas said that he had eked out an existence for two months on six shillings. How did he do it? That would be difficult to say, but at any rate he solved the rent problem by living in an empty house at Mount Albert during the period of financial stringency. “I don’t think he’s a criminal,” the Rev. Jasper Calder told the court. “I’ll look after him, and I’ll be the first to pull him in if he gives any trouble!” “He’s really a case for a half-way-house,” added the city missioner. Gibb, xvhose appearance was much improved after his period in gaol on remand, xx-as conx-icted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 1
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