POOR BUT PROUD.
By Telegraph—Press Association. INVERCARGILL, June 18. A feeble old man named John Kane, who had been wandering about the Fomahaka district, was charged in the Magistrate's Court with being an idle and disorderly person. He has bee seeking shelter wherever he could gc-t it, and refused to apply for a pension or to enter a home. Mr Cruickshank, S.M., said he did not like to imprison a man who was too proud to accept a pension. Asked if he would go to a home, defendant said he had his doubts about the value of such an institution, and objected. Sentence of three months' imprisonment was imposed, the warrant to be suspended if he remained in Caversharn Home.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3221, 19 June 1909, Page 5
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120POOR BUT PROUD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3221, 19 June 1909, Page 5
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