VETERAN FOR ROTO ROA
TWO YEARS’ SENTENCE DRINK OLD MAN’S ENEMY ALTHOUGH Kenneth McLeod, aged 75, protested in the Police Court to-day that Roto Roa was no place for an old man, Mr. McKean, S.M-, sent him there. f was charged with being p' ll ?2 without lawful excuse in the Pacific Buildings. fmV°J stable Patterson said that he nip*?? ac cused on the third floor last i He had made up a bed, and ended to stay there until morning. d J se ” lor ’Sergeant Edwards said that , Wa « McLeod’s trouble. He had ' On S, list, and Roto Roa was the f ° r hilTl- - ,?/' as^e<3 h® would go to the “Wv» » replied disgustedly: na.t’ s the good of sending an old D * n like me there?” Ene magistrate decided that there s some use in doing so, and the two years of McLeod’s life will spent at the inebriates’ home.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 108, 28 July 1927, Page 1
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