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Apprehended In Guest House (New Zeatana Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 22. Vincent George, aged 24, a workman, pleaded guilty in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court today to being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found by night in the house of Mrs Gladys Bason, in Carlton Gore road, last Saturday. He was remanded in custody until next Wednesday for sentence. Mr J. G. Rossiter, the police prosecutor, said Mrs Bason, the proprietress of a guest house, had seen a man’s face at a window. The man jumped out ’ of a window, but was brought back by Mrs Bason’s son and another guest, and detained until the police arrived. “He admits being in the house, but says he was looking for a girl from the South Island,” Mr Rossiter said, “but no such person was there. George smelt strongly of liquor but was not drunk.”
Pakistan Food Rationed.— The Provincial Government had imposed a limited form of food rationing on the 45,000.000 persons of East Pakistan, according to Karachi reports. f Last November the province escaped famine with a bumper rice crop and the purchase abroad of food grain.— Karachi, May ID.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28284, 23 May 1957, Page 3
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