FOURTH EDITION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 588, 14 February 1929, Page 13

FOURTH EDITION

•NO BOOT! NO MONEY!” uaORI'S EXCUSE FOR NOT % REPORTING gi PRISON for a month t fron* O ur O wn Correspondent! PUKEKOHE. Wednesday. ! -No boot; can’t come down to 1 „oort. No money too! I ras was Tom Davy's excuse for failI c to report to the police in terms of 9 ’w probation. 8 .'U4 in a heavy blue woollen jersey I V wearing blue Lrousers. together I the necessttry footwear, Davy 8 .li in *be dock of the Pukckohe S tnre this morning to answer the 1 preferred aga.nst him. "SideI Wirfs' 1 reaching well below his cars I < npletril Tom's toilette, fl Reluctantly, tho young Maori utl--1 .tried his guilt. 1 riving tlio accused a "once over," 1 11. Levien. S.M., observed that 1 f,ra supplied with footwear. 8 -Theae arc borrowed plumes," said 1 A. J- Maiden, who mu.de tlte I Cftst at Tuakau this morning, referI i to Davy’s apparel. 1 %avv said he has nut sumdent time 1 report,” added tho constable, i *HotV old is he?” inquired the 1 Bench To t,lis t,ie constable replied 1 Sit even Davy did nut know. i endeavours to get accused to report I nrored fruitless, stated the police. 110 ixd neglected to report since October 1 ' While he was at Mercer.’ said ConI itablo O. N. Douglas, "he frequented a U hoU-l and billiard room. When L 1 him from doing so he disap - B Mured.” S ••t s he a loafer?” asked the magisfl That is praising him,” replied Con- ( . U iile Maiden. “He is an utter waster.” I The. magistrate was advised that ■ v, v y was admitted to probation last car tor the theft of a camera. Iri 1 s2s ho was also given a term of H metro months’ probation for stealing 1 . tvotball. 1 He practises these petty thefts.’’ 9 a police officer, "and has already H a month for not reporting.” i You have been given the character lof an utter waster. When you come I , u t of gaol you get some employment,” | | Lcvien told Davy in sentencing I i.im to u month's imprisonment with 9 lard labour.