CHEAP LIVING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1036, 29 July 1930, Page 10

CHEAP LIVING

SOY STEALS GROCERIES FOR WIDOWER MAN MUST PAY S» ■Walter Henry Martin was orderK to pay a total of £8 in theCourt this morning, following hi* & covery of a means of substantially reducing the cost of living. Martin was charged with r*ceW*? butter and tinned goods, of • hte value of £3, from a boy, knowing ties to be dishonestly obtained. The go* o * were the property of Robert L**® l - 5 Martin at first denied that he **•* aware that the goods were stolen, kdecided to plead guilty. Chief-Detective Hammond sail man had a billiards saloon * Hikurangi. He had been baching a boy employed at a grocer’* MW* was in the habit of bringing him and they had their meals tage& e It was Martin’s first appearance h fore the court, but he had left der» behind him when he moved Hikurangi. He was a widower vf four children who were being look after in town. K “He had no right to let t*e w. j stray like that,” declared Mr. Hunt, S.M. “That is the unpiea**feature of the case.” n - Martin was fined £5 in deian - days’ imprisonment. He was ’ ordered to make restitution and i given a week in which to money.