A HARD PLIGHT
WORKMAN DESTITUTE COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. “I see in this man one of many hundreds who will be in a similar plight during the coming winter,” said Mr. F. D. O’Halloran in defending Thomas James Davenport, a labourer, on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person. “But if he is given a chance and does not make good I would be the last to defend him.” This is Davenport’s third appearance on the same charge since March 16, and he has since been hanging round the town belt in a filthy condition. Davenport, unlike many others, had not run up a bill for board where he knew there was no chance of paying. He was an unskilled worker and the case seemed to be, one in which some benevolent institution might intervene. Mr. Page, S.M.; Have you a suggestion to make? Mr. O’Halloran: None. Mr. Page convicted and ordered the accused to appear to-morrow for sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 11
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164A HARD PLIGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 11
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