REFUSED TO WORK
HOW LABOURER BROKE PROBATION SENTENCED TO GAOL Because he did not “want to be a slave to anybody,” William James Smith refused to work and so broke the terms of his probation. TN til© opinion of Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, imprisonment was a much better cure for Smith than the probation to which h© was admitted in November, 1927. Smith, a 25-year-old labourer, was sentenced to three months in gaol for failing to comply with the terms of his probation, "and a further term of three months for stealing lead piping valued at £1 10s, from William Tattley in 1927. This was one of the original charges on which Smith received probation. Mr. W. .1. Campbell, the probation officer, said that Smith had been admitted to two years’ probation for theft on November 4, 1927, and had been ordered to make restitution of some £23. “This man is one of the few who simply refuse to work,” Mr. Campbell said. “I have had positions in view for him, but he will not go to them. .He says to me that he will not be a slave to anybody.” Mr. Hunt: Oh, did he? Mr. Campbell: That is what he says. Mr. Hunt: Well, instead of probation, he is going to get six months’ gaol altogether.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 652, 2 May 1929, Page 1
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