OLD MEN’S MORNING
Snowy-haired and time-worn four old men, all of whose ages exceeded three score years, and one, even the three score and ten mark, succeeded each other in the dock at the Police Court this morning to be detilt with for drunkenness.
The oldest of them all, a feeble old man of 74, was remanded for a week for medical observation.
“He is in a pretty bad way,” said Senior-Sergeant Edwards, “he’s been drinking methylated spirits/’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 53, 25 May 1927, Page 10
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