SHOULD HAVE WALKED.
UNNECESSARY MOTOR CAR. GAOL FOR MUSIC TEACHER. "What were you going to do with this car?" queried the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) of Reginald Howan, a music teacher, who appeared in the Supreme Court this morning for sentence on a charge of obtaining credit while bankrupt, and also for false pretences. ''I was going to use it in mv work," replied prisoner confidently. "Do you mean to say you couldn't be a mysic teacher without _ motor car?'' "Xot in Te Awamutu." "Well, there were music teachers in the country 50 years ago, and they had no motor cars," retorted Sir Robert ■Stout. "That's the trouble t.o-day some people think walking ought to" be given up." "But some of the pupils were thirty miles away," pleaded Howan. "You had no business to get the car. If you were poor, you should have walked." said his Honor. Jt was not prisoner's first offence, or he would have got probation. Prisoner's conduct was such that he had recklessly got other people's money, and also this car. "You are sentenced to 18 months' reformative detention.
"We"11 see if the Prisons Board can make a better man of you." added his Honor. "You have much need of it."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1925, Page 6
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