WORK-SHY VAGRANT
LOAFED SINCE 1923 THREE MONTHS’ GAOL Said by two detectives to be loitering about the streets and making no attempt to look for work, George Lionel Arnold, a carpenter, aged 46, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at the Police Court this morning on a charge of vagrancy. Arnold did not plead, remarking that it was very hard to get work. Acting-Detective Packman said that the man had been loafing about the streets for three or four mouths, and would no look for work. Chief-Detective Hammond: Hanging about the hotels? Witness: No. He doesn’t drink. Detective Moon was of the opinion that Arnold was not a thief, though he could not tell how the man made a living. His beat was about Wellesley Street and the Public Library. He had been about the city for a number of years. Staff-Captain Holmes, of the Salvation Army, said that the man had lived on charity for the past- three or four years. He was a half-way mental case. Arnold: I ought to be getting work soon. The chief-detective added that accused had a long list of convictions for being idle and disorderly. He had been a vagrant since 1923.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 11
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