"GO AWAY HOME, DEBTOR!"
The man earned £2 7s a week, he paid 10s a> week rent, he had n» property, and Tie had a wife and child to keep. He was proceeded against on a judgment summons at the Wellington court last week (says the (Dominion'), and was in the witness-box under an examination, the extractions from which were to help the court to decide whether or not an order of the court for payment of the debt shduld be made against him. The lawyer who was advocating the case of the creditor was still questioning the debtor when Dr McArthnr, S.M., interjected: "What's the use of going any further?" Counsel went a little further and then said that he would ask lor an order-to be made. "He is not in a bad position," he remarked. Dr McArthur: "Not in a bad position with £2 76 a week and three of them to keep! £1 17s to keep three! 1 hope I shall never see you in that position, Mr : I know I never shall." "No order!" (concluded his Worship). "Go away home, debtor!"
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 15 August 1911, Page 8
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185"GO AWAY HOME, DEBTOR!" Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 15 August 1911, Page 8
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