MEAL NOT PAID FOR.
IN WELLINGTON RESTAURANT. (Special to the "Guardian.") WELLINGTON, August 18. "I was starving," said John 1 ravers aged 28, in an explanation to a Magistrate of his action in going into a restaurant in Manners Street, eating a meal, and walking out without paying for it. The Magistrate: Bo you know that there are places where you can tret a meal for nothing p Travers: No. I don't know much about Wellington. Have you ever heard of the baivation Army?—Yes. - , To a man starving they will give a meal for nothing, won't they?—l did not know that. , Sub-Inspector Lopdell: I don t think it likely that he would be in such a condition as to be actually starving. It is not fair to these restaurant-keepers that a man should rro in and order one of the best meals on the menu and then not pay. J tliinK in this case if he were ordered to come up for sentence it would warn others. The Magistrate took this view; and acted accordingly. "Mind you, if you come up," he said to Travers, it will go hard with you."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 262, 19 August 1930, Page 2
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191MEAL NOT PAID FOR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 262, 19 August 1930, Page 2
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