CANNOT FIND WORK
PRISONER’S FUTILE PLEA SENT TO GAOL FOR MONTH (From Qur Own Correspondent) HAMILTON. Today. A plea that he could not find work, was made by William Morrison Young, a Scotsman, when charged with vagrancy before justices in the Police Court this morning. * “I’m not a criminal, sir/* he said. Tve tried to get work all over the country. I’ve tramped from New Plymouth and tried for every job I’ve heard of, but everthing has failed.’* He added he was a woodturner by trade, but there was nothing offering in this line. He had been told to so to the country to get work. He had done so, and was prepared to take any sort of Job, but it was useless. He was neither a shirker nor a criminal. Mr. J. S. Browne, J-P., said there any amount of work for those really wanting it. In sentencing accused to one month’s imprisonment, the Bench said that if he were allowed his freedom he might start begging again. Accused was advised to take any billet offering. Sergeant Mathieson said the accused bad a conviction for theft, and was now on probation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 715, 15 July 1929, Page 1
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192CANNOT FIND WORK Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 715, 15 July 1929, Page 1
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