"LAST ROUND-UP."
ELDERLY INEBRIATE.
BOUND FOR ROTO ROA,
120 PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS
"In the words of the well-known cowboys' song, this man looks as if he is heading for the last round-up," said Mr. W. Noble, who appeared for an old offending inebriate in the Police Court this morning. "He can't help getting drunk, and he says he is willing to go to Koto Roa Island," said counsel. The magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean, said he did not know what to do with the accused, who had made many appearances before him. "You have 120 previous convictions," he told the man in the. dock. "Are you willing to go to the island?" The man who has been too friendly with Bacchus replied that he was, whereupon he was taken by a constable to make. an application for admission to the inebriates' home at Roto Roa.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1936, Page 8
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