“Would you give accused -18 hours in which to find the monev?”. asked counsel in the Auckland Magistrate's Court the other day (reports the “New Zealand Herald’’), when the Magistrate, Mr. F. K.. Hunt, S.M., imposed a fine of £2 in an assault case. “He had £l4 on him when arrested,” said Senior-Sergeant Edwards. “It is a wonder you did not know that,” remarked the Magistrate to counsel. “I have just been instructed,” counsel replied, amid laughter, “but he will not need time to pay if that is the case.”
George Geoffrey, of Warwick Bridge, Cumberland, sentenced by the county magistrate at Carlisle to two months’ imprisonment for neglecting his five children, was stated to be receiving 335. dole and 31s. 9<l. weekly as a life war pension. Inspector Buchland told the magistrate there were four canaries in the house, and they were better looked after than the poor motherless <5!dren.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 166, 10 April 1926, Page 7
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