“FOR A RAINY DAY”
A MAGISTRATE’S ADVICE. When J. Hourigan, a labourer, appeared before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Lower Hutt-Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, on a judgment summons for arrears in rent amounting to £l6 15s. Ud„ he stated that he was unable to pay off more than 2s. 6d. a week. He was in causal work only, and receiving £4 -ss. per week, on which he had to support a wife and three children, in addition to paying the rental for a 4-roomed house, amounting to £2 2s. 6d, J “What I cannot understand,” said the Magistrate, in making an order for ss. per fortnight, “is why, when you were earning £6 15s. a week, a good wage, you were unable to put something aside. You say that at present, while getting £4 ss. you are in a position to pay 2s. 6d. weekly off the arrears. I have too many of these cases before the Court.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 15
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