Youth ’too lazy to work’
'A young man who had not worked for five months told the police he was too lazy to work, the Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday. Peter Frank Slade, an unemployed crane driver, pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly in Christchurch on Tuesday. Sergeant K. J. Hurndell said the police visited a derelict, burnt-out house in Harvey Terrace where the defendant was found in an unkempt condition. All he had was a mattress and some boxes for furniture.! The house had no water or heating. The defendant said he was
there because he did not get on with his family. When the duty solicitor (Mr M. J. Glue) applied for bail for Slade, Mr F. G. Paterson, S.M., asked him if he was serious. “You surely cannot be asking for him to return to those conditions again?” he said. Mr Glue said the defendant had assured him he could do better. “So can we,” replied the Magistrate. He convicted Slade and remanded him in custody to January 17 for a probation report and sentence.
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