TROUSER BUTTONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 122, 26 May 1927, Page 3

TROUSER BUTTONS.

VOX ACCEPTED CTJKJLSJrCY. MEAL THAT COST £1 10/. If* anaring what «a few" will do. Yesterday John Harry Cooper had *'a few,- and be wanted to pay for a meal with « trover but-ioa. It was not ao> cepted as currency. To-day, looking miserable and dejwted, be tu ovea hie tixth introduo MOB to the Auckland IV.ljoe Court, whea be pleaded puiliy to a «autnre of drunk* encwr, and to incurring debt by fraud, which «u a raeal valued at 1/. Hni Ibe old, old utory. Senior Sergeant Edward* «aid Cooper went to a restaurant in .Slrort, had a meal, offering Id, 3d and then a button aa payment. He w*« drunk and wa» given in charge. The ncnior sergeant read a string of the previous cJiargce made against him, and they made * *t range variety. "All right. Fined 10/ or IS hours m the first charge and £1 or throe darn on the eecoDd," raid Mr. Hunt. "Can I hare time to piyf* axkod Cooper. Air. TTnnt: What? Tour reror* dotwnt warrant yon having time h> pay* Have yoo got a "job?— Ye*. Mr. Hunt: Well, let the polio* nend fof the money and get ibe thing fixed up. Cooprr unbind from the dodk. Hig meal cost him 3(1/ in aIL