GAOL FOR VAGRANT
HAD HIS CHANCE Given a chance by Mr/F. K. Hunt, S.M., last January, Herbert George Frost failed to leave the city and look for work as was then suggested. lie appeared at the Police Court this morning and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Frost, a labourer. aged 57, was charged with being idle and disorderly having insufficient visible means of support. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said Frost had been before the Court on January 16 on a similar charge when he was ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called upon. He was a strong man and could get work, but had not .left the city as suggested. “Frost has been hanging about the town drinking methylated spirits,” added the sub-inspector.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 938, 3 April 1930, Page 12
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126GAOL FOR VAGRANT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 938, 3 April 1930, Page 12
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