‘NOT A HOUSE, A MORGUE’
WATERSIDER’S MONEY TROUBLES CARING FOR SICK WIFE Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. His house, which he described as a “morgue,” and his invalid wife, were the reasons advanced by a waterside worker for his getting into debt when ho appeared before the magistrate yesterday, on a judgment summons for £2O 17s. Defendant said his average earnings were £5 a week.. He paid £ 2 5s for rent. “I took the house on condition that it was warm and dry,” he said. Counsel: Was it? •Defendant: No; we were frozen out, blown out and washed out. It is not a house, it is a morgue. Defendant was ordered to discharge his debt at the rate of £ 1 a month.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 961, 2 May 1930, Page 16
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121‘NOT A HOUSE, A MORGUE’ Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 961, 2 May 1930, Page 16
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