DRUNKEN LABOURER
BENT TO ROTOROA ISLAND Detention for 12 months at Rotoroa Island was imposed on James Clarke, aged 60, a labourer, of Frankton, today, when for the third time in the statutory six months he appeared before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, on a charge of drunkenness. Accused pleaded guilty of the offence. “This man was arrested in a hotel in Hamilton at 4.20 p.m. yesterday,” said Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert. “The last time he was here Your Worship promised, on a recurrence of the offence, to send him to the Island.” Clarke appealed for another chance, saying that the offence would not occur again. He asked for the imposition of a fine. “I will give you a better chance than that,” commented the magistrate. “You will go to the Island for 12 months and that will give you a chance to get the alcohol out of your system.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20916, 22 September 1939, Page 6
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155DRUNKEN LABOURER Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20916, 22 September 1939, Page 6
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