PREFERRED ROTO ROA.
TO VETERANS' HOME. INEBRIATE TO RETURN TO ISLAND. . "This old gentleman has been two vears on Rotoroa Island, and had come ii" to Auckland to enter the Veterans' Home, hut be started drinking and was arrested for drunkenness before he got to the Veterans' Home," said Sub-Inspec-tor McCarthy about John Colin McDonald (78), who came before the Police Court this morning for drunkenness and a brenph of his nrohihit.ion order.
McDonald, who slid he would prefer *o return to Rotoroa, where he would not he able to obtain any liquor and 'vould lie under restrictions, was Bent Wr for another twelve months.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 7
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105PREFERRED ROTO ROA. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 7
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