"TAXPAYERS PAY."
RELIEF WORKER'S OFFENCE.
COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE,
"This young man got in tow ■with some girls yesterday afternoon, . and they rushed into' a boardinghouse _in Waterloo Quadrant to escape him, with the result that he became annoyed and broke a window;" said Chief Detective Hammond, at the Police Court to-day, when Algernon James Kennington Johnson (29), labourer, was charged with mischief.
Mr. Hammond added that Johnson, had more liquor than was good for him, and followed the girls along the street.
Mr.Aekins, who appeared for accused,, said Johnsoifs story was that he met the girls in tlTc lounge of a city hotel and they invited him to their flat. They all proceeded from the hotel in a taxi. The breaking of the window was an accident.
Johnson was fined £1 and ordered to make good the damage/ 2/6.
"Can my client have time to pay sir? He's; employed on relief works," asked counsel.
-Mr. Hunt: Employed on relief works, and lie can drink iu hotel lounges and travel in taxi cabs! He's the sort that I and other taxpayers have to pay for. No, certainly not. Let him send out for the money.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 252, 24 October 1931, Page 11
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