HARD UP.
■ "I come to inform you how hard up I am," explained a Maori defendant in a civil case in the Magistrate's Conrt. He explained that his only property was some native land, which was of no u«e to him, as the Public Trustee was handling the estate to pay the interest on a j mortgage thirteen years old. His wife ! was keeping a boardinghouse, and he I helped around the house "washing-up ! and doing other things."' He could not I obtain any employment. Xo order wa« 1 made. 1 -
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 189, 11 August 1928, Page 7
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