GAOL FOR CADGER
(From Our Own Correspondent) WHANGAREI, Wednesday
Bearing the reputation of being “Whargarei’s biggest beer cadger,” Joseph Gunn appeared before Messrs. A. H. Curtis and S. Walker, J.P.’s, in the Magistrate’s Court today on charges of vagrancy and drunkenness. The police said that Gunn was little more than a professional lounger in hotels and made a practice of getting others to “shout.” He had been about the town for six weeks and had not paid a penny for board. Gunn admitted it would have been better if he had paid some money advanced to him by friends to the boarding house keeper, instead of to the publican. He said he had work to go to at Taipuha, but investigation proved this to be incorrect. The Bench said Whangarei would have to be cleared of such men. and sentenced Gunn to a month’s imprisonment on the vagrancy charge and convicted and discharged him for drunkenness.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 754, 29 August 1929, Page 11
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156GAOL FOR CADGER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 754, 29 August 1929, Page 11
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