LIGHT FINGERED TRAMPS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2129, 2 March 1886, Page 2

LIGHT FINGERED TRAMPS.

Our Te Awamutu correspondent writes :— The plague of tramps is beginning; Some people have lout things recently by these gentry. On the day of the cavalry sports, Mr ft. Roches house was broken into and a quantity of food Was htolou. An entrance was effected through one of the windows in the fiont of the h<>u--e, and a two pound tin of tea, about m\ pounds of sugar, seven or eight pounds of honuy, jam, cheese, &c, carried off. It is lucky they confined their attentions to food only, and did not take any thing* of more \ahu\ The lo.«.o is very trifling, but if bucli practices aro not btopped these people would grow bolder, and will take things of mure value on another occasiou. Mr Roche dobires to express his thanks, to the gentlemen for not availing themselves of the opportunity they had of taking? clothing or other thing* of value. H<> has been in the habit of giving food and lodging- to men going round looking for work, often si\ or si-yen a week, but he says for the future ho will refuse them. It in by the dMioiiChty of such scamps that honest men suffer. The mal-practiceb have had a similar effect on runholders in other parts of New Zealand. These men arc not bo hospitably inclined as they were formerly. There were two men concerned in this affair, for they were met by Mr Roche not far from his luiuxe, ns he was driving his family to the sports. They also visited a tent occupied by some men who aro ploughing tor Mr Taylor and stole an accordeon. In this instance, however, a blessing may have been conferred on the mates of the musician, but in any case the loss ib annoying to the owner.